Android is project promoted primarily by Google through the Open Handset Alliance aimed at providing a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications [1]. Although the project is currently in a development phase and has not made an official release yet, several vendors of mobile chips have unveiled prototype phones built using development releases of the platform at the Mobile World Congress [2]. Development using the Android platform gained activity early in 2008 as a result of Google's launch of the Android Development Challenge which includes $10 million USD in awards [3] for which a Software Development Kit (SDK) was made available in November 2007.
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