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Features of Android

 Features of Android

let's see the features of android. The important features of android are given below:

Beautiful UI :- Android operating system provides a UI which is associated with the activity and presented to user.


Connectivity :- It has various connections such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GSM/EDGE, CDMA etc.


Storage :- A light relational database – SQLite is used for the storage purpose.


Media support :- H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC, AAC 5.1, MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP.


Messaging :- It supports messaging services -SMS , MMS.


GCM :- Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that lets developers send short message data to their users on Android devices, without needing a proprietary sync solution.


Web Browser :- It is based on the open-source WebKit layout engine which is coupled with Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine that supports HTML5 and CSS3.


Resizable widgets :- Widgets are resizable, so users can expand them to show more content or shrink them to save space.


Multi-touch :- Android has native support for multi-touch feature.


Multi-Language :- It supports single direction and bi-directional text feature.


Wi-Fi Direct :- Android  supports a technology that lets apps discover and pair directly over a high-bandwidth peer-to-peer connection.


Multi-tasking :- Android support multi tasking where user can perform multiple tasks simultaneously.


Android Beam :- This feature is used to share instantly just by touching two NFC enabled phones together.

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