Android aosp keyboard zip Continue Your keyboard is one of the main ways to interact with an Android phone, and whether you're using an Android stock keyboard (which gets a great update in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean) or you've taken one of our favorite alternative keyboards or prefer a completely different one, we want to know which Android keyboard you think is best. Compared to your full-size desktop keyboard, typing on a tiny keyboard phone software is just... The more pleasing thing about Android keyboards is that there is one for each type of typist. Whether you prefer to talk to your phone, or with your phone to predict what you're going to type, or you hunt and peck no matter what keyboard you use, there's an option for you. Which one do you think is the best? Leave your vote in the comments below. The appeal to the applicants is closed! To see which of your nominees are in the top five, head over to the top five Android Keyboards to see and vote for the toy winner! Finding the perfect Android keyboard is not an easy task- there are so many to choose from and most... Read more about the five nominations in the comments where you posted your favorite tool for work. We get hundreds of comments, so to make your nomination clear, please include it at the top of your commentary as follows: WINNER: BEST ANDROID KEYBOARD. Please don't turn on your voice in response to another commenter. Instead, make your vote and respond to individual comments. If you don't follow this format, we can't count your vote. To prevent falsification of results, votes from first-time commentators cannot be counted. Once you've made your nomination, let us know what makes it stand out from the contest. About Hive Five: The Hive Five feature series asks readers to answer the most frequently asked question we get: Which tool is the best? Once a week we will put out a call for applicants looking for the best solution to a particular problem, then you tell us your favorite tools to get the job done. Every weekend we will report to the top five recommendations and give you the opportunity to vote for what is best. For example, check out five of the best home Wi-Fi routers last week. A good Wi-Fi router is essential for any reliable home network. The best ones get great range and can... More Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite stayed away, it's not because we hate it, it's because he didn't get the nominations needed in calling for job applicants to make the top five. We understand that this is a bit of a popularity contest, but if you have Love, we want to hear about it. Is there an offer for Hive Five? Send us a letter on tips+[email protected]! One interesting thing about Android is that you can use any keyboard that fits your needs. Custom dictionaries, themes, layouts, everything you need, have a keyboard to match. This week we want know which ones you think are the best. Of course, one of the reasons we're bringing this up is because SwiftKey, the keyboard that won our poll the last time we did it, just dropped its price and is free for everyone. It's a great keyboard, but its competition has come a long way too, especially the default Google Keyboard, which jumps and borders better than it once did. However, there are many others out there too. Let's hear your favorite in the discussions below. The appeal to the applicants is closed! To see which of your nominees has received enough support to make the top five, head over our Hive Five feature, the top five Android keyboards, and cast your vote for the toma winner! Finding the perfect Android keyboard is not an easy task- there are so many to choose from and most... More Let's hear your voice in the discussions below! To vote, follow these recommendations: Follow this format for your voice, including bold print. If you didn't, it won't count: SCREENSHOT or LOGO OF THE BEST ANDROID KEYBOARD Vote: BEST ANDROID KEYBOARD: Why do you think this keyboard is the best? Maybe he knows what you're going to dial before you type it. Maybe it has multiple layouts, or custom dictionaries, or it's fast and flexible. Do your job! Try to keep it in one paragraph, maybe two. Don't duplicate the nominations! Instead, if someone has appointed your choice, the star (recommend) it to give it a boost and respond with your story instead. Please do not leave without logging, direct comments on this post. They're just going to be pushed down. Save your stories for the representations of others! If you're not sure what we mean, just check out the nominations of our writers below. We'll give you a start and they all need to be in the proper format so you can just follow our example. Hive Five is our weekly series where you vote for your favorite apps and tools for any job. Any suggestion on the topic? Email us at tips'[email protected]!Photo by Karlis Dumbrens. One of Android's greatest strengths, and a source of casual frustration, is its wide range of software options. Samsung, Huawei, Sony, and even Google offer their own take on the core Android experience by presenting their own unique features and ideas. All of this has been made possible by a common basic operating system (OS) that provides basic functionality. All Android variants you know and love are based on AOSP - Android Open Source Project.The AOSP is a project to develop an open source operating system supported by Google. Anyone can make code and fixes to the project repository, but Google its general direction and the bulk of the development. AOSP regularly includes the latest bugs and security patches for Android. Google also unveils major new OS features each year at its i/O.I/O developer conference. 10 is the latest edition. In addition to being open to use and modified under an open source license, android Open Source Project is open to the program. Smartphone manufacturers, like Samsung and others, can customize the project for their own purposes. However, most phone manufacturers receive AOSP versions from a chipset supplier such as qualcomm. This is because Android needs to be adapted to low-level hardware through the drivers that we will get later. In any case, Google is pleased with this arrangement, as it encourages developers to use Android for a wide range of Internet-connected gadgets. In turn, a number of companies each contribute to fixes and improve OS. It's a win-win. Inside the Android Open Source ProjectA I'm sure you can imagine operating systems are complex beasts. Android is no different. AOSP covers a range of layers of software in the operating system, providing access points and tools for both hardware developers and app developers. Lower level levels are places where device manufacturers encode the OS to work with their specific hardware. For example, Linux Kernel is the primary program that manages processor resources, system memory, and the network so that applications and services can work. The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) links shared APP APIs for Bluetooth, sound, etc., device microphone, speakers, and more. Higher-level layers are used by app developers. Native libraries allow developers to create content with shared low-level supported libraries such as OpenGL ES, Webkit, and more. In addition, Android Frameworks provides app developers with suites for shared OS features ranging from location data, tapping notifications and phone calls. Android Runtime is an intermediary, turning the app code into native instructions for basic hardware. Android Combined all together, the Android Open Source Project stack (pictured above) is a complete solution for Android hardware and software developers. AOSP isn't just an ever-growing code base though. Google also provides design and development tools within the project, ranging from compatibility documents to better security and application design principles. Google also hosts a selection of test kits to help developers get the API and features of their devices right. AOSP vs AndroidThe Android Open Source Project is often confused with Android stock, but this is a simplification. AOSP contains everything that developers have to build Android, but it doesn't include everything you need for a finished smartphone. First, and AOSP can't provide device core drivers for every hardware configuration out there. By device driver, we mean the firmware needed for hardware, from the phone's processor functions to the camera. Phone manufacturers and SoC, such as Kvalcomm and Samsung, Samsung, incorporate these drivers into your Android build. This is partly why updates take time to trickle from AOSP to actual devices. AOSP also doesn't come with a suite of Google software apps such as Chrome browser, YouTube and even the Google Play Store. They are licensed separately as Google Mobile Services (GMS). Any manufacturer who wants to install GMS on top of Android must obtain a GMS license and a Mobile App Distribution Agreement (MADA) for their device, and then pass several compatibility tests. There is a set of Android compatibility tests (CTS) to test software and hardware components and APIs. Then Google Mobile Services Test Suite (GTS) and Vendor Test Suite (VTS) to test the multimedia capabilities and capabilities of the OS and HAL kernel.