Android Basics

An overview about the Android SDK The Android SDK was announced officially on November 12, 2007. Here is a small table showing the SDK release date,Version & API Level of the version.

Date of Release	SDK Version	API Level
18 Aug 2008	Version 0.9 Beta	0
23 Sep 2008	Version 1.0	1
09 Mar 2009	Version 1.1	2
30 Apr 2009	Version 1.5	3
15 Sep 2009	Version 1.6	4
26 Oct 2009	Version 2.0	5
03 Dec 2009	Version 2.0.1	6
11 Jan 2010	Version 2.1	7
20 May 2010	Version 2.2	8

The Latest version of Android SDK is 2.2 You can download the latest SDK version here Android Market

Android had a 2.8% share of the worldwide smartphone market. By the following quarter (Q3 2009), Android's market share had grown to 3.5%.

Android would become the world's second most popular smartphone platform. while BlackBerry falls from 2nd to 5th place. iPhone remains in 3rd place. Microsoft's Windows Mobile remains in 4th place.

Taiwan's Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) predicted that in 2013, 31.8 million Android phones and 126 million Android-based portable products would ship.

How to get started with Android? Here is a video, it will show how to install android into eclipse & how to start a simple android application. The video will explain you Step-by-step process of

from where we want to get SDK,
how to install it in eclipse,
how to install emulator to run an application ,
how to start a sample android project &
how to run the android application

Click here to see how to Install Android SDK on eclipse