| Nougat | Android 7.1 |
- Daydream Virtual Reality mode
- Night Light
- Storage manager improvements
- Performance improvements for Touch and Display managements
- Option to enable fingerprint swipe down gesture
- Seamless system updates
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- Shortcut manager APIs
- Support Circular app icons
- Keyboard image insertion
- VR thread scheduling improvements
- Enhanced wallpaper metadata
- Multi-endpoint call support
- Source type support for Visual Voicemail
- Carrier config options to manage video telephony
- open-source AOSP apps replaced with closed-source google
apps
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| Nougat | Android 7.0 |
- Unicode 9.0 emoji
- Better multitasking
- Multi-window mode (PIP, Freeform window)
- Seamless system updates (with dual system partition)
- Better performance and code size thanks to new JIT
Compiler
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- Sustained Performance Mode (SPM) API
- Vulkan 3D rendering API
- Daydream virtual reality platform
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| Marshmallow | Android 6 |
- USB Type-C support
- Fingerprint Authentication support
- Better battery life with "deep sleep"
- Permissions dashboard
- Android Pay
- MIDI support
- Google Now improvements
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- Custom Chrome Tabs for better in app browser support
- App Permissions management update
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| Lollipop | Android 5.0 |
- New design (Material design)
- Speed improvement
- Battery consumption improvement
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- Several new API
- Tracking battery consumption app
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| KitKat | Android 4.4 |
- Screen recording
- New Translucent system UI
- Enhanced notification access
- System-wide settings for closed captioning
- Performance improvements
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- Public API for SMS management.
- Improved memory usage
- Security enhancements (SELinux enforcing mode, new
cryptographic algorithms, VPN per user...)
- NFC Host Card Emulation (for wireless payment, loyalty
programs...)
- Printing Framework
- Storage Access Framework
- Hardware Sensor Batching
- Full-screen immersive mode
- GLES2.0 SurfaceFlinger
- Chromium WebView
- Audio tunneling to DSP
- Audio monitoring
- Wi-Fi certified Miracast
- New Bluetooth profile
- IR Blasters API
- Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) support
- Tools for analyzing memory use (procstats, on-device memory
status and profiling)
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| Jelly Bean | Android 4.1 |
- Google Now ( youtu.be/... )
- Voice Search
- Speed enhancements
- Camera app improvements
- Accessibility: gesture mode, enable braille external
keyboards...
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- app stack navigation to define a parent activity in manifest
for deep navigation
- MediaActionSound class to make sounds like when a camera takes
a photo
- NFC supports large payloads over bluetooth
- WIFI/WIFI-Direct service discovery
- Large, detailed, multi-action notifications
- Input manager allows you to query input devices
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| Ice Cream Sandwich | Android 4.0 |
- New lock screen actions
- Improved text input and spell-checking
- Control over network data
- Email app supports EAS v14
- WI-FI direct
- BlueTooth Health Device Profile
- ADB Backups
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- Low-level streaming multimedia (Khronos OpenMAX AL
- Grid Layout
- Spell checking service
- Address Space Layout Randomization
- VPN client API
- Remote Device camera enable/disable
- ZSL exposure, continuous focus, and image zoom
- Flags to help control system ui elements like system bar from
apps
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| Honeycomb | Android 3.0 |
- Multi core support
- Better tablet support
- Updated 3D UI
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- customizable homescreens
- recent applications viewing
- redone keyboard layout
- Media/Picture transport protocol
- Google Talk video chat
- Google eBooks
- "Private browsing"
- System-wide Clipboard
- HTTP Live streaming
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- contextual action bar
- Fragments first introduced(support library now supports it as
well)
- Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
- Renderscript 3D graphics engine
- Pluggable DRM framework
- device administration
- High performance Animation Framework
- RTP streaming API
- Forced rendering of layers
- High performance WIFI lock
- Vew network traffic stats
- ADTS AAC and FLAC audio
- LRU cache
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| Gingerbread | Android 2.3 |
- Updated UI
- Improved keyboard ease of use
- Improved copy/paste
- Improved power management
- Social networking features
- Near Field Communication support
- Native VoIP/SIP support
- Video call support
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- performance - concurrent garbage collection, faster event
distribution, updated video drivers
- NDK - Native Asset Manager, Native Activities + event handling,
khronos api
- audio effects api
- VP8, WebM, AAC, AMR wideband
- Multiple camera sensor support
- strictmode debugging
- media framework replaces OpenCore
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| Froyo | Android 2.2 |
- Speed improvements
- JIT implementation
- USB Tethering
- Applications installation to the expandable memory
- Upload file support in the browser
- Animated GIFs
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| Eclair | Android 2.0 |
- HTML
- Digital zoom
- Microsoft Exchange support
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Live Wallpapers
- Updated UI
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| Donut | Android 1.6 |
- Gesture framework
- Turn-by-turn navigation
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| Cupcake | Android 1.5 |
- Bluetooth A2DP, AVRCP support
- Soft-keyboard with text-prediction
- Record/watch videos
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| Banana bread | Android 1.1 |
- "Show" & "Hide" numeric keyboard, in caller
application
- Ability to save MMS attachments
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| Apple pie | Android 1.0 |
- Public Release of Android
- Download and updates via Android Market
- Web Browser
- Camera support
- Gmail, Contacts and Google Agenda synchronization
- Google Maps
- YouTube application
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