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Friday, November 25, 2011

Everything In Future will run on Android!

Diogo Ferreira, a young hacker who attended the Droidcon India, the first-ever international Android conference in the country believes that Android will power everything, from refrigerators to heaters to of course most of the mobile devices.  



Android is getting bigger and better. It is becoming increasingly powerful in all parts of the world, including India. Diogo Ferreira, a young hacker who turned up at Droidcon India, the first-ever international Android conference in the country believes that Android will power everything.
According to a report from The Hindu, Ferreira said that this open source mobile operating system will be ubiquitous, powering digital devices across the board. He said, “We'll see it power everything ... even cars, maybe.”

He cited an example of the CISCO gadget presentation at the event where he saw a smartphone with a tablet built into it (that's made on Android). This enables you to pick up the tablet from the phone and proceed for a meeting.

The sheer fact that Android is open source makes him believe that the platform has the potential to go places. He said, being open source, it can be adopted by anyone. "They just have to take the code and modify it in the direction of their choice.”

Ferreira, who is currently pursuing his Ph.D., is a known name in the Android world. He has developed apps and contributed significant code. He is a part of CyanogenMod, which maintains a community version of Android.
It is a distribution of Android that you can install in the device after you buy it. It offers features like private browsing, or something as simple as FM Radio that a manufacturer may choose not to enable. He says that the beauty of CyanogenMod is its property of being customised. It allows the developers to build what they want and use it on their device.
Commenting on the issue of Android dealing with 'hardware interface' and the perception that it is only for geeks, Ferreira said, it is unfair to make a comparison of low-end, slower-processing Android device with iPhone. If an iPhone is positioned against a high-end Android device, the latter one is the clear winner. The chinks with the user interface, he adds, are currently undergoing huge improvement by Google.

Having said that, the young hacker believes that Android is one platform that can bridge the gap between the high end and low end devices. He said, “Even if we consider the notion that performance is not to the optimum level, people who can't afford an iPhone should be able to be part of the ecosystem.”

courtesy: EFY Times

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