Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) is a suite of apps and services owned by Chinese tech giant, Huawei. This suite of apps comes pre-installed on all new Huawei phones. Huawei is one of the biggest names in the smartphone and telecommunications industry. They have the world’s most advanced 5G tech currently. They are also the world’s […]

Google Mobile Services is a group of proprietary software such as apps, services, APIs, etc. that are owned by Google. They usually come as part of the Android package for many phones. Google Mobile Services (GMS) are owned and licensed exclusively by Google to phone manufacturers (OEMs). A lot of people are so used to […]

According to Wikipedia, Android Skins refers to the general look and feel of a mobile phone’s user interface (UI). A UI is the space (physical or virtual) where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective control and operation of the machine from the human end. Android Skins […]

Some years back, I came across two guys arguing online. One said that the Android Open Sourced Project (AOSP) was the same as the regular Android on our phones and the other guy said it was not. I had no idea what they were talking about and had to go do some serious research before […]

The two main competing operating systems on smartphones today are iOS vs Android. This is a duopoly that has held sway for a while now. No other operating system (both past and present), has come close to unseating these two giants. iOS was released first on the 29th of July, 2007 with the iPhone. Android […]

The history of iOS is quite long. It may not be as storied as that of Android, but that doesn’t make it any less fascinating. iOS is the name given to the family of operating systems that run exclusively on Apple’s iPhones. Sorry guys, but those android themes do not count. Read: The history of […]

The History of Android is long and storied. It began from its humble beginnings, to its feud with iOS and finally its domination of the world. Android is the most popular OS in the world today, more than any other OS both on mobile and PC. Android’s popularity is due in part to its open […]

A mobile operating system is an operating system for smartphones, tablets, smart watches/bands and other mobile devices. This is not to be confused with laptops which are mobile (can be carried about), but use a different computing platform. A mobile operating system is known as a mobile OS for short. Older mobile OS are purely […]

Have you ever happened to come into a conversation and the term “system software” popped up? If you have ever wondered what it meant, then this post is for you. System software (SS) has come a long way from its inception in the 80s. It is very important for a computer/smartphone to have a good […]

A software platform is software that is built to work on a specific kind of hardware. A Software platform could also refer to the particular type of hardware that a software was designed for. Software platforms are the digital environmental environments that other software run on. There are different types of computer hardware and they […]