| Android 15 | 2024 Q3 | | | | Android 15 (official) or Vanilla Ice Cream |
|---|
| Android 14 | 2023-10-04 |
- Privacy enhancements (Per image access rights)
- Multiuser mode with guest mode minor changes
- Battery life improvements
- Phone can be used as a webcam on connected computer.
| Apps build for Android 6 and below are blocked. | 34 | Upside Down Cake |
|---|
| Android 13 | 2022-08-15 |
- Notifications need must be allowed before first send
- The notification panel show the number of active apps
|
- Android Runtime (ART) improve memory management
- Bluetooth LE Audio support
- LC3 audio codec
- MIDI 2.0 over USB support
| 33 | Tiramisu |
|---|
| Android 12L | 2022-04-07 | |
- Foldable screen support
- User interface adjustments for large screens
| 32 | Snow Cone v2 |
|---|
| Android 12 | 2021 Oct 4 |
- More customizable UI (Could adjust the whole UI depending on
the selected wallpaper)
- Security and privacy enhancements like a timeline to know what
data your applications access
|
- “Material You” design language
- Android Private Compute Core
- AV1 Image File Format support (AVIF)
| 31 | Snow Cone |
|---|
| Android 11 | 2020-09-08 |
- Screen recording
- Better permissions settings
- Messaging bubbles
- Ethernet Tethering
|
- 5G app support
- Captive portal API
- Shared datasets
- Wireless debugging
| 30 | Red Velvet Cake |
|---|
| Android 10 | 2019-09-03 |
- Better privacy support:
- Require permissions to access location or files in
background
- Limit access to unique device identifiers
- Access system settings directly from apps using floating
panel
- New audio/video codec support: AV1, HDR10+, Opus
- WPA3 Wi-Fi support
- Foldable phones support
- Dark theme
- Gesture navigation
|
- MIDI API
- Notification Bubbles
- In apps Biometric authentication
| 29 | Queen Cake |
|---|
| Android 9 | 2018-08-09 |
- User interface updates:
- Rounded corners across the UI
- Quick settings menu change.
- Notification bar, the clock has moved to the left.
- The "dock" now has a semi-transparent background.
- New transitions when switching between apps, or within
apps
- Volume slider updated
- Richer messaging notifications: with full conversation, large
images, smart replies
- The power options now has a "screenshot" button
- Biometric authentication can now be disabled only once
| | 28 | Pie |
|---|
| Android 8.1 | 2017-12-05 |
- Show battery level in "Quick Settings" for devices connected
via Bluetooth
- Navigation buttons dim when not in use
- UI updates to 'Power Off' and 'Restart'
- Toast messages are now white in color with same existing
transparency
- Automatic light and dark themes
- Emoji updates (ie: Hamburger move the cheese slice
position)
|
- Neural networks API for artificial intelligence
- Shared memory API
- WallpaperColors API
- Programmatic Safe Browsing actions
- Autofill framework updates
- Go Edition: lightweight Android distribution for
devices with less than 1 GB of RAM
| 27 | Oreo |
|---|
| Android 8.0 | 2017-08-21 |
- PIP: Picture-in-Picture with resizable windows
- Android Instant apps
- Improved notifications system
- Improved system settings
- Lock screen redesign
| | 26 | Oreo |
|---|
| Android 7.1.2 | 2017-04-04 |
- Battery usage alerts
- Nexus and Pixel specific improvements
| | 25 | Nougat |
|---|
| Android 7.1.1 | 2016-12-05 |
- Long press on the app icon enable new launch actions
- The default keyboard allows now to send GIFs directly
- New set of emojis
| | 25 | Nougat |
|---|
| Android 7.1 | 2016-10-04 |
- 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
|
- 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
| 25 | Nougat |
|---|
| Android 7.0 | 2016-08-22 |
- 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
|
- Sustained Performance Mode (SPM) API
- Vulkan 3D rendering API
- Daydream virtual reality platform
| 24 | Nougat |
|---|
| Android 6.0.1 | 2015-12-07 | New emojis | | 23 | Marshmallow |
|---|
| Android 6 | 2015-10-05 |
- USB Type-C support
- Fingerprint Authentication support
- Better battery life with "deep sleep"
- Permissions dashboard
- Android Pay
- MIDI support
- Google Now improvements
|
- Custom Chrome Tabs for better in app browser support
- App Permissions management update
| 23 | Marshmallow |
|---|
| Android 5.1.1 | 2015-04-21 |
- Speed improvement
- Bug fixes
| | 22 | Lollipop |
|---|
| Android 5.1 | 2015-03-09 |
- Multiple SIM cards support
- Quick settings shortcuts to join Wi-Fi networks or control
Bluetooth devices
- Lock protection if lost or stolen
- High Definition voice call
- Stability and performance enhancements
| | 22 | Lollipop |
|---|
| Android 5.0.2 | 2014-12-19 |
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
| | 21 | Lollipop |
|---|
| Android 5.0.1 | 2014-12-02 |
- bug fixes, fix issues with video playback and password
failures
| | 21 | Lollipop |
|---|
| Android 5.0 | 2014-10-17 |
- New design (Material design)
- Speed improvement
- Battery consumption improvement
|
- Several new API
- Tracking battery consumption app
| 21 | Lollipop |
|---|
| Android 4.4.4 | 2014-06-23 |
- Fix Heartbleed / OpenSSL vulnerability
| | 19 | KitKat |
|---|
| Android 4.4.3 | 2014-04-14 |
- Bug fixes
- Enable Sprint Spark band 26 and band 41
| | 19 | KitKat |
|---|
| Android 4.4.2 | 2013-12-09 |
- Bug fixes
- Security enhancements
| | 19 | KitKat |
|---|
| Android 4.4.1 | 2013-12-05 |
- Bug fixes
- Enhance the camera on the Nexus 5
| | 19 | KitKat |
|---|
| Android 4.4 | 2013-10-31 |
- Screen recording
- New Translucent system UI
- Enhanced notification access
- System-wide settings for closed captioning
- Performance improvements
|
- 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)
| 19 | KitKat |
|---|
| Android 4.3 | 2013-07-24 |
- Dial pad auto-complete
- Photo Sphere enhancements
- Camera app UI updated
- 4K resolution support
- Ability to create restricted profiles for tablets
- Hebrew and Arabic right-to-left (RTL) support
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support
- Bluetooth Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.3
support
- Security and performance enhancements
|
- OpenGL for Embedded Systems 3.0 graphics support
- Logging and analyzing enhancements
- Wi-Fi scanning API
- Improved DRM (digital rights management) API
- VP8 encoding
| 18 | Jelly Bean |
|---|
| Android 4.2.2 | 2013-02-11 |
- Allow toggling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth state in Quick Settings
using long-press
- Shows the percentage and estimated time remaining in the active
download notifications
- Wireless charging and low battery sounds changed
- Gallery app updated for faster loading with new image
transition
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes (Bluetooth A2DP audio
streaming fix...)
|
- Secure USB debugging (allow debugging to authenticated
computers only)
| 17 | Jelly Bean |
|---|
| Android 4.2.1 | 2012-11-27 |
- Fix missing december bug in the People app
- Add support for Bluetooth gamepads and joysticks HID
devices
| | 17 | Jelly Bean |
|---|
| Android 4.2 | 2012-11-13 |
- Lockscreen widgets
- 360 degree images with Photo Sphere
- Gesture Typing, for faster typing
- Wireless display with Miracast
- Daydream to display information when idle or docked
- Multi-user for tablets
|
- vsync timing
- Triple buffering
- reduced touch latency
- CPU input boost
- Native RTL support - mirrors the display from manifest
prop
- External display support - Display Manager
- Nested fragments
- Renderscript Compute - run tasks on the GPU (supported
devices)
- Renderscript ScriptGroups, built-in intrinsics like blur,
- FilterScript is a subset of Renderscript made for high
performance image processing
| 17 | Jelly Bean |
|---|
| Android 4.1.2 | 2012-10-09 |
- Enable Home screen rotation
- Fix bugs and enhance performances
| | 16 | Jelly Bean |
|---|
| Android 4.1.1 | 2012-07-23 |
- Fix a bug on screen orientation
| | 16 | Jelly Bean |
|---|
| Android 4.1 | 2012-07-09 |
- Google Now ( youtu.be/... )
- Voice Search
- Speed enhancements
- Camera app improvements
- Accessibility: gesture mode, enable braille external
keyboards...
|
- 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
| 16 | Jelly Bean |
|---|
| Android 4.0.4 | 2012-03-28 |
- stability improvements
- better camera performance
- smoother screen rotation
| | 15 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
|---|
| Android 4.0.3 | 2011-12-16 |
- Social stream API in Contacts provider to show updates
associated to your contacts
- Video stabilization and QVGA video resolution API access
- Accessibility API refinements for screen readers
- Calendar provider updates
| | 15 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
|---|
| Android 4.0.2 | 2011-11-28 | Minor fixes | | 14 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
|---|
| Android 4.0.1 | 2011-10-19 |
- Facial recognition (Face Unlock)
- UI use Hardware acceleration
- Better voice recognition (dictating/Voice typing)
- Web browser, allows up to 16 tabs
- Updated launcher (customizable)
- Android Beam app to exchange data through NFC
| | 14 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
|---|
| Android 4.0 | 2011-10-18 |
- 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
|
- 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
| 14 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
|---|
| Android 3.2.6 | 2012-02-15 | Minor fixes | | 13 | Honeycomb |
|---|
| Android 3.2.4 | 2011-12-15 | Added "Pay as you go" for tablets | | 13 | Honeycomb |
|---|
| Android 3.2.2 | 2011-09-30 | Minor fixes | | 13 | Honeycomb |
|---|
| Android 3.2.1 | 2011-09-20 |
- Android Market updates including easier automatic updates
- Google Books updates
- Wi-Fi improvements
- Chinese handwriting prediction improved
| | 13 | Honeycomb |
|---|
| Android 3.2 | 2011-07-15 |
- Optimizations for a wider range of tablets
- Compatibility display mode (zoom for fixed-sized apps)
- Media sync from SD card
|
- Extended API for managing screens support
-
- New resource qualifiers for screens support
- New manifest attributes for screen-size compatibility
- Screen compatibility mode which allows for phone apps to appear
as if they were still on a phone
| 13 | Honeycomb |
|---|
| Android 3.1 | 2011-05-10 |
- UI improvements
- Open Accessory API
- USB host API
- Mice, joysticks, gamepads... support
- Resizable Home screen widgets
- MTP
notifications
- RTP API
for audio
| | 12 | Honeycomb |
|---|
| Android 3.0 | 2011-02-22 |
- Multi core support
- Better tablet support
- Updated 3D UI
-
- 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
|
- 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
| 11 | Honeycomb |
|---|
| Android 2.3.7 | 2011-09-21 |
- Google Wallet support for the Nexus S 4G
| | 10 | Gingerbread |
|---|
| Android 2.3.6 | 2011-09-02 | | | 10 | Gingerbread |
|---|
| Android 2.3.5 | 2011-07-25 |
- Improved network performance for the Nexus S 4G
- Fixed Bluetooth issues on the Samsung Galaxy S
- Gmail app. improvements
| | 10 | Gingerbread |
|---|
| Android 2.3.4 | 2011-05-10 |
- Voice or video chat using Google Talk
| | 10 | Gingerbread |
|---|
| Android 2.3.3 | 2011-02-09 | |
- NFC API
improvements (peer to peer communication...)
- added unsecure bluetooth sockets
| 10 | Gingerbread |
|---|
| Android 2.3 | 2010-12-06 |
- 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
|
- 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
| 9 | Gingerbread |
|---|
| Android 2.2 | 2010-05-20 |
- Speed improvements
- JIT implementation
- USB Tethering
- Applications installation to the expandable memory
- Upload file support in the browser
- Animated GIFs
| | 8 | Froyo |
|---|
| Android 2.1 | 2010-01-12 | | | 7 | Eclair |
|---|
| Android 2.0.1 | 2009-12-03 | | | 6 | Eclair |
|---|
| Android 2.0 | 2009-10-26 |
- HTML
- Digital zoom
- Microsoft Exchange support
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Live Wallpapers
- Updated UI
| | 5 | Eclair |
|---|
| Android 1.6 | 2009-09-15 |
- Gesture framework
- Turn-by-turn navigation
| | 4 | Donut |
|---|
| Android 1.5 | 2009-04-30 |
- Bluetooth A2DP, AVRCP support
- Soft-keyboard with text-prediction
- Record/watch videos
| | 3 | Cupcake |
|---|
| Android 1.1 | 2009-02-09 |
- "Show" & "Hide" numeric keyboard, in caller
application
- Ability to save MMS attachments
| | 2 | Banana bread |
|---|
| Android 1.0 | 2008-09-23 |
- Public Release of Android
- Download and updates via Android Market
- Web Browser
- Camera support
- Gmail, Contacts and Google Agenda synchronization
- Google Maps
- YouTube application
| | 1 | Apple pie |
|---|
| Android 0.9 | 2008-08-22 | It is the first version to use Android 1.0's UI. It also adds many
of the sounds and ringtones found in 1.0, albeit mostly in stereo
as opposed to mono. | | | Beta |
|---|
| Android m5-rc15 | | the bug where incorrect handling of BMP images have been resolved. | | | Bender |
|---|
| Android m5-rc14 | | New touch-based ui The UI has been redesigned with updated icons, a
new look and feel, and a menu in the bottom-right. The menu shows
Contacts, Dialer, and an "All" button that shows all programs
installed. It is also the first build to include the notification
area, but sliding down from the top will show nothing but just the
white background with no text. It now supports SD card images up to
128GB. Most of the issues from m3-rc20a have been resolved. The
wallpaper settings is not final, so you will get an "Unsupported
action" message instead. | | | |
|---|
| Android m4-rc5 | | | | | |
|---|
| Android m3-rc37a | | The emulator skin has been changed from QVGA-L (320x240) to
HVGA-P (320x480) by default. | | | Astro Boy |
|---|
| Android m3-rc22a | | Bug fixes. | | | Astro Boy |
|---|
| Android m3-rc20a | |
- First available build of Android
- New dock interface
- New icons
- Reverted back to the old status bar with ability to read
notifications
- Removed most of the apps. They later reintroduced in newer
versions of Androids or a standalone app from Android Market (now
known as Google Play)
- New browser homepage
| | | Astro Boy |
|---|
| Android htc-29386.0.9.0.0 | | | | | |
|---|
| Android htc-2065.0.8.0.0 | | First known build of Android | | | |
|---|
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see older commentsGreat Article. I was unaware of the minor adjustments Android does to improve usability. One of Android 13's most impressive additions is the ability for apps to shoot and preview HDR video material using the Camera2 APIs. Consult ValueCoders if you're looking for Android application development.
The comparison of the Android versions are represented in a good manner and style, however, can some share the feature and functions of various Android TV OS versions such as Android TV 9.0, Android TV 10, Android TV 11 and Android TV 12.
Great comparison about Android versions
That's a really good in-depth article about the different Android platforms available. Love, love, love that you included all the features included in every new version. It really helps developers when they build apps to know which new features are introduced (and obsolete). Check out how much it takes to develop an app and you'll know why being on top of which Android version you are developing for is part of the puzzle. inspirevisual.com/...
I like your comparison, that was really interesting! I like to read authors who are not impartial. Sophia, I think that a lot of people heard about Flutter, but I do not agree with you. Yes, flutter is a cross-platform tool and it's very cool, you can read this webpage for more info madappgang.com/... but I also heard that it is hard to find a developer on flutter. You may develop an application, but after that, it will be hard to support it, fix bugs, etc. So this is a double-edged sword.
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Nice comparison factors with all informative metrics. I hope Android 9 Pie will amaze users through its features and functionality.
Very nice list. I didn't even know about 0.9 Android) By the way, I have nice review about last 8 Android Oreo. Check it here: cleveroad.com/...
Can we use new version on Samsung Galaxy S4 sgh-m919 UVUAMDL ?
How do I know which Android OS will work best with the MyMatrix TV android box? I tried looking for it on their site but couldn't find any info on it......MyMatrixTV.com
@Jeyanthan Rasalingam
API: basically it is the features a developer can use for their app. For a full description:
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API level is useful for developers to know which versions has the same global features set.
It's also useful for market share as explained in the description (market share is based on the API level).
easy to convey matter........
Je ne sais pas si c'est le cas sur tous les smartphones, mais sur le Samsung Xcover 2 ou GT-S7710, cette version est une vrai galère au niveau de la mémoire. Impossible de transférer les applications sur la micro SD. Du coup, on est vite saturé en mémoire. Inadmissible pour un smartphone comme celui-là. Il serait bien d'avoir une solution pour corriger ce problème.
Bonjour. Depuis que j'ai cette nouvelle version (4.1.2) j'ai un petit souci. Quand j’écris un sms et que j'ai un mot qui n'éxiste pas sur mon téléphone il est impossible d'ajouter ce nouveau mot dans le dictionnaire interne de mon galaxy note GT-N7000. Y'a t'il une solution car cela est très gênent. merci d'avance
Dolphin has not supported Flash since about the time of Android 4.0.1 or 4.0.2, Or have they added it back? The Android devs had pretty horrid Flash support anyway. Felt like they just decided to give up trying to get their code right (was it beyond their skill level? who knows...but it's not there far as my last look.)
android is a software for tablet and phones, the platform is based on linux kernel. it can be modified by programmer and now it has many versions like gingerbread, ice cream sandwich, jelly bean, honeycomb, etc. Fachrunnisa Firdausi /IT 2E/ 214
est-il possible de mettre à jour la version android de ma tablette qui tourne sous 4.1.1 ?
Voted for this Comparison A++