BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV1I6105,
     title={Google Android: An Emerging Innovative Software Platform for Mobile Devices},
     author={Neha B. Thakkar},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={1},
     number={6},
     pages={272--278},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV1I6105.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

In this time of immense globalization the need for Collaborative tools and devices are the bear necessity of life. The increasing importance of mobile devices has triggered intense competition among technology giants, like Symbian, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Nokia in a bid to capture the bigger market share for mobile platform. Android, an open source mobile platform with no upfront fees, has emerged as a new mobile development option that offers many benefits over competing platforms. "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." -Benjamin Franklin Google seems to follow this quote very well. A continuous growth and progress have become motto of this industry. Each and every day, it is willing to provide new features, applications, new Interface to their customers. Android brings Internet-style innovation and openness to mobile phones. Android devices are the array of gadgets offering sensor-based capabilities that let developers and users to control applications and games. Android remains the world's most widely used operating system, based on market and usage share statistics, used by hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Android's Google Play beats App Store with over 1 million apps, now officially largest. Android continued to increase its lead, garnering 79 percent of the market in 2013.In this paper I will review android as a Platform, its current market share, sensors which are important for creating innovative applications and architecture of android as mobile device platform.

Android; Architecture of Android; Mobile Operating System; OHA; Open source software platform; Sensors in android