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something onto the screen, due to the limitation for developers
to directly draw something onto the screen without surface
manager.
b.
Media Framework
Media framework provides various media codecs, allowing the
users to record and playback of different media formats.
c.
SQLite
SQLite is the database engine used in android for data storage
purposes.
d.
WebKit
WebKit is an engine browser to display HTML content in
android devices.
e.
OpenGL
OpenGL
renders various 2D or 3D graphics content to the
screen.
3.
Android Runtime
Android Runtime is constructed from Dalvik Virtual Machine
(DVM) and Java Core Libraries. DVM is basically interpreter for
code which has already been converted from Java to Dalvik.
Meawhile, the core of libraries are coded in Java language
which
will interpreted by Dalvik.
4.
Application Framework
Application framework is a set of blocks that directly interacts with
the application. The main objectives of application framework is
controlling resource management, voice call etc. The main
components of this layer are:
a.
Activity Manager
b.
Content Manager
c.
Location Manager
d.
Telephone Manager
e.
Resource Manger
5.
Applications
Application is the highest set of blocks in Android architecture
which contains several standard applications, such as dialer, web
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