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Android phones, like this Nexus S running Replicant, allow installation of apps from the Play Store, F-Droid store or directly via APK files. This is a list of notable applications (apps) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software.
The Android SDK is a software development kit for the Android software ecosystem that includes a comprehensive set of development tools. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These include a debugger , libraries , a handset emulator based on QEMU , documentation, sample code, and tutorials.
Android Studio supports running either of these from Gradle. Other third-party tools allow integrating the NDK into Eclipse [10] and Visual Studio. [11] For CPU profiling, the NDK also includes simpleperf [12] which is similar to the Linux perf tool, but with better support for Android and specifically for mixed Java/C++ stacks.
[10] Android Studio was announced on May 16, 2013, at the Google I/O conference. It was in early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered beta stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June 2014. [11] The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0. [12]
Android software development is the process by which applications are created for devices running the Android operating system. Google states that [ 3 ] "Android apps can be written using Kotlin , Java , and C++ languages" using the Android software development kit (SDK), while using other languages is also possible.
This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software ; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source . [ 1 ]
Licenses can be purchased a la carte, in any combination required and include 1 year of access to new releases. Xojo Pro, a bundle offered by Xojo, includes the ability to compile for Desktop, iOS, Android, Web and Console, along with technical support, access to consulting leads, and a license that will work on three machines.
Android Runtime (ART) is an application runtime environment used by the Android operating system. Replacing Dalvik , the process virtual machine originally used by Android, ART performs the translation of the application's bytecode into native instructions that are later executed by the device's runtime environment.