Wednesday 13 August 2014

Use outside of smartphones and tablets

The accessible and customizable attributes of Android allows it to be acclimated on added electronics abreast from smartphones and tablets, including laptops and netbooks, smartbooks,[249] acute TVs (Android TV, Google TV) and cameras (E.g. Galaxy Camera).[250] In addition, the Android operating arrangement has apparent applications on acute glasses (Google Glass), smartwatches,[251] headphones,[252] car CD and DVD players,[253] mirrors,[254] carriageable media players,[255] landline[256] and Voice over IP phones.[257] Ouya, a video bold animate active Android, became one of the a lot of acknowledged Kickstarter campaigns, crowdfunding US$8.5m for its development,[258][259] and was after followed by added Android-based consoles, such as Nvidia's Project Shield — an Android accessory in a video bold ambassador anatomy factor.[260]

In 2011, Google approved "Android@Home", a home automation technology which uses Android to ascendancy a ambit of domiciliary accessories including ablaze switches, ability sockets and thermostats.[261] Prototype ablaze bulbs were appear that could be controlled from an Android buzz or tablet, but Android arch Andy Rubin was alert to agenda that "turning a lightbulb on and off is annihilation new", pointing to abundant bootless home automation services. Google, he said, was cerebration added ambitiously and the ambition was to use their position as a billow casework provider to accompany Google articles into customers' homes.[262][263]

Parrot apparent an Android-based car stereo arrangement accepted as Asteroid in 2011,[264] followed by a successor, the touchscreen-based Asteroid Smart, in 2012.[265] In 2013, Clarion appear its own Android-based car stereo, the AX1.[266] In January 2014 at Consumer Electronics Show, Google appear the accumulation of the Accessible Automotive Alliance, a accumulation including several above auto makers (Audi, General Motors, Hyundai, and Honda) and Nvidia, which aims to aftermath Android-based in car ball systems for automobiles, "[bringing] the best of Android into the auto in a safe and seamless way."[267]

On March 18, 2014, Google appear Android Wear, an Android-based belvedere accurately advised for smartwatches and added wearable devices; alone a developer examination was fabricated about available.[268] This was followed by the actualization of two Android Wear–based devices, the LG G Watch and Moto 360.[269]

On June 25, 2014, at Google I/O, it was appear Android TV, a Acute TV platform, is replacing the ahead appear Google TV. On June 26, 2014, Google appear Android Auto for the car.

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