create inventive and modern mobile applications

Android offers various features to create inventive and modern mobile applications:

o GSM, EDGE, CDMA, Bluetooth, WI-Fi, EV-DO, and UMTS technologies to send and receive data across mobile networks.
o Comprehensive libraries for 2D and 3D graphics.
o A wide range of libraries for image, video, and audio files, which includes MPEG4, H.263, H.264, AMR, AMR-WB, MP3, AAC, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, WAV, and MIDI formats.
o Features of Video camera, touchscreens, GPS, accelerometer, and magnetometer.
o Interprocess communication (IPC) message passing
o P2P using Google Talk.
o SQLite for data storage
Android includes a SDK that provides a wide range of libraries and tools for Android Application Development. The SDK provides a complete set of tools to design the UI for an application and to develop and debug application code.

The SDK includes multiple versions of Android platform (For example, Android 1.1, and Android 1.5) that you can use for Android Application Development. For each version, the SDK provides a fully compliant Android library and system image.