The European Commission said the firm had utilized the versatile working framework to illicitly "concrete its overwhelming position" in seek.
The association's parent Alphabet has been given 90 days to change its business practices or face encourage punishments of up to 5% of its normal worldwide day by day turnover.
It has said it intends to claim.
In any case, it could without much of a stretch manage the cost of the fine if required - its money saves totaled about $103bn toward the finish of March.
At a question and answer session in Brussels, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said purchasers required decision.
What's more, she recommended the decision could lead makers to offer brilliant gadgets utilizing distinctive forms of the Android working framework to Google's, for example, Amazon's Fire OS, which she said they had been kept from doing.
"This will change the commercial center," she said.
Google's CEO Sundar Pichai has blogged accordingly.
"Quick advancement, wide decision, and falling costs are exemplary signs of powerful rivalry and Android has empowered every one of them," he composed.
"The present choice rejects the plan of action that backings Android, which has made more decision for everybody, not less."
Ms. Vestager already fined Google �2.4bn ($2.8bn; �2.1bn) over a different test into its shopping correlation benefit - a decision the tech firm is engaging against.
Moreover, her group has a third examination in progress into Google's advert-putting business AdSense.
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What is the situation against Google?
Ms. Vestager affirms that there are three different ways that Google has acted illicitly:
it required Android handset and tablet producers to pre-introduce the Google Search application and its own particular internet browser Chrome as a condition for enabling them to offer access to its Play application store
it made installments to extensive makers and versatile system administrators that consented to only pre-introduce the Google Search application on their gadgets
it kept producers from offering any keen gadgets fueled by elective "forked" variants of Android by undermining to reject them consent to pre-introduce its applications
Ms. Vestager recognized that Google's rendition of Android does not forestall gadget proprietors downloading elective internet browsers or utilizing other web crawlers.
In any case, she said that exclusive 1% of clients downloaded a contending seek application, and 10% an alternate program.
"When you have it, it is working, not very many are sufficiently interested in search for another inquiry application or program," she said.
What does the controller need Google to do now?
The Competition Commissioner said that Google did it mishandle when the versatile web was developing rapidly, helping it guarantee that its promoting upheld seek benefit rehashed the achievement it had effectively found on PCs.
She can't turn the clock back, yet said the extent of the fine had been founded on the company's pursuit related income from Android gadgets in Europe since 2011.
She has, be that as it may, said the firm should now stop the majority of the practices laid out above and cease from any measures with a comparable objective.
Russia may give one case of how this could be accomplished.
After comparable grievances by the nation's controller, Google presently offers Android clients a decision between Google, Yandex and Mail.ru as the default web index the first occasion when they utilize the Chrome program.
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