摘要：AbstractNowadays Android becomes more and more popular operating system. Mostly, it is installed on portable devices with support of communications and providing friendly user environment. This article focuses on overview this system from the point of view of programmer and showing other options which this OS can be used in. In this paper, it is also shown how to measure some system parameters from the point of view of real-time capabilities such a switching context time, interrupt latency time and time of work with memory. Thanks these parameters, the system capabilities can be imagined on target platform. It is discussed about soft and hard real-time capabilities of OS Android.
