In 2012 winter quarter, I took the course Operating Systems. It involves a programming project that requires us to benchmark an operating system in terms of the time to finish some certain tasks. My partner and I decided to choose Android as the target platform while most of the other students chose Linux which seems easier. The reason we chose it is that Android is quite popular nowadays and it is open source compared to iOS. We believe that working on this new platform will be more interesting, challenging and rewarding.