Le feature offerte da questo SDK sono:

• Application framework: enabling reuse and replacement of components
• Dalvik virtual machine: optimized for mobile devices
• Integrated browser: based on the open source WebKit engine
• Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
• SQLite for structured data storage
• Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
• GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
• Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
• Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
• Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE

Mi sembra un buon inizio… Tra l’altro il WebKit non è altro che il framework utilizzato per molte famose applicazioni per Mac OS X: Safari (!), Mail, Dashboard (!!!).

Per quanto riguarda il S.O., Android come prevedibile si affida a Linux, con kernel della famiglia 2.6:

Android relies on Linux version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the rest of the software stack.

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