Test Your Android Trivia Knowledge With This Android Quiz

Think you know a lot about Android? If you read our One Click Root blog on a regular basis, then you probably think you’re an expert about everything in the Android world. But do you really know how Google was able to create a mobile operating system and, in just a few years, transform that operating system into something with 75% global smartphone market share? Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t. If you’re ready to test your knowledge of Android, check out this 15 question quiz from Tech Week Europe: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/quiz/the-android-platform-66-1 I consider myself well-versed with Android technology, although I didn’t know the answer to several of the questions asked. I didn’t know that Android was started by a company outside of Google called Android, Inc., for example, before being acquired by the tech giant in 2005. The main founders of that company stayed on as Google employees and were able to turn a few thousand lines of code into the OS we know and love today.

Android trivia from the quiz

[caption id="attachment_4160" align="aligncenter" width="582"] Photo courtesy of AndroidHeadlines.com[/caption] Some other interesting bits of Android trivia from the quiz (DO THE QUIZ BEFORE READING THIS): -The first Android phone that entered the retail market was made by HTC -RIM is the only company (out of a list containing Apple, Oracle, RIM, and Microsoft) that hasn’t sued Google for alleged Android patent infringement -Samsung makes the most Android-based games by volume -A rival version of Android called Aliyun is currently being developed in China. It looks a lot like Android. -The first Android-based device designed by Google was called the Nexus One -Google purchased Motorola in 2012 in order to protect itself from patent lawsuits