Android 1.0 | Apple pie |
- Public Release of Android
- Download and updates via Android Market
- Web Browser
- Camera support
- Gmail, Contacts and Google Agenda synchronization
- Google Maps
- YouTube application
| | 2008-09-23 | 1 |
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Android 1.1 | Banana bread |
- "Show" & "Hide" numeric keyboard, in caller
application
- Ability to save MMS attachments
| | 2009-02-09 | 2 |
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Android 1.5 | Cupcake |
- Bluetooth A2DP, AVRCP support
- Soft-keyboard with text-prediction
- Record/watch videos
| | 2009-04-30 | 3 |
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Android 1.6 | Donut |
- Gesture framework
- Turn-by-turn navigation
| | 2009-09-15 | 4 |
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Android 2.1 | Eclair | | | 2010-01-12 | 7 |
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Android 2.0.1 | Eclair | | | 2009-12-03 | 6 |
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Android 2.0 | Eclair |
- HTML
- Digital zoom
- Microsoft Exchange support
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Live Wallpapers
- Updated UI
| | 2009-10-26 | 5 |
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Android 2.2 | Froyo |
- Speed improvements
- JIT implementation
- USB Tethering
- Applications installation to the expandable memory
- Upload file support in the browser
- Animated GIFs
| | 2010-05-20 | 8 |
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Android 2.3.7 | Gingerbread |
- Google Wallet support for the Nexus S 4G
| | 2011-09-21 | 10 |
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Android 2.3.6 | Gingerbread | | | 2011-09-02 | 10 |
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Android 2.3.5 | Gingerbread |
- Improved network performance for the Nexus S 4G
- Fixed Bluetooth issues on the Samsung Galaxy S
- Gmail app. improvements
| | 2011-07-25 | 10 |
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Android 2.3.4 | Gingerbread |
- Voice or video chat using Google Talk
| | 2011-05-10 | 10 |
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Android 2.3.3 | Gingerbread | |
- NFC API
improvements (peer to peer communication...)
- added unsecure bluetooth sockets
| 2011-02-09 | 10 |
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Android 2.3 | Gingerbread |
- 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
| 2010-12-06 | 9 |
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Android 3.2.6 | Honeycomb | Minor fixes | | 2012-02-15 | 13 |
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Android 3.2.4 | Honeycomb | Added "Pay as you go" for tablets | | 2011-12-15 | 13 |
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Android 3.2.2 | Honeycomb | Minor fixes | | 2011-09-30 | 13 |
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Android 3.2.1 | Honeycomb |
- Android Market updates including easier automatic updates
- Google Books updates
- Wi-Fi improvements
- Chinese handwriting prediction improved
| | 2011-09-20 | 13 |
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Android 3.2 | Honeycomb |
- Optimizations for a wider range of tablets
- Compatibility display mode (zoom for fixed-sized apps)
- Media sync from SD card
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- Extended API for managing screens support
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- 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
| 2011-07-15 | 13 |
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Android 3.1 | Honeycomb |
- UI improvements
- Open Accessory API
- USB host API
- Mice, joysticks, gamepads... support
- Resizable Home screen widgets
- MTP
notifications
- RTP API
for audio
| | 2011-05-10 | 12 |
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Android 3.0 | Honeycomb |
- 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
| 2011-02-22 | 11 |
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Android 4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- stability improvements
- better camera performance
- smoother screen rotation
| | 2012-03-28 | 15 |
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Android 4.0.3 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- 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
| | 2011-12-16 | 15 |
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Android 4.0.2 | Ice Cream Sandwich | Minor fixes | | 2011-11-28 | 14 |
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Android 4.0.1 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- 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
| | 2011-10-19 | 14 |
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Android 4.0 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- 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
| 2011-10-18 | 14 |
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Android 4.3 | Jelly Bean |
- 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
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- OpenGL for Embedded Systems 3.0 graphics support
- Logging and analyzing enhancements
- Wi-Fi scanning API
- Improved DRM (digital rights management) API
- VP8 encoding
| 2013-07-24 | 18 |
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Android 4.2.2 | Jelly Bean |
- 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...)
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- Secure USB debugging (allow debugging to authenticated
computers only)
| 2013-02-11 | 17 |
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Android 4.2.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Fix missing december bug in the People app
- Add support for Bluetooth gamepads and joysticks HID
devices
| | 2012-11-27 | 17 |
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Android 4.2 | Jelly Bean |
- 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
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- 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
| 2012-11-13 | 17 |
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Android 4.1.2 | Jelly Bean |
- Enable Home screen rotation
- Fix bugs and enhance performances
| | 2012-10-09 | 16 |
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Android 4.1.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Fix a bug on screen orientation
| | 2012-07-23 | 16 |
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Android 4.1 | Jelly Bean |
- 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
| 2012-07-09 | 16 |
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Android 4.4.4 | KitKat |
- Fix Heartbleed / OpenSSL vulnerability
| | 2014-06-23 | 19 |
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Android 4.4.3 | KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Enable Sprint Spark band 26 and band 41
| | 2014-04-14 | 19 |
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Android 4.4.2 | KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Security enhancements
| | 2013-12-09 | 19 |
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Android 4.4.1 | KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Enhance the camera on the Nexus 5
| | 2013-12-05 | 19 |
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Android 4.4 | KitKat |
- 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)
| 2013-10-31 | 19 |
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Android 5.1.1 | Lollipop |
- Speed improvement
- Bug fixes
| | 2015-04-21 | 22 |
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Android 5.1 | Lollipop |
- 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
| | 2015-03-09 | 22 |
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Android 5.0.2 | Lollipop |
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
| | 2014-12-19 | 21 |
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Android 5.0.1 | Lollipop |
- bug fixes, fix issues with video playback and password
failures
| | 2014-12-02 | 21 |
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Android 5.0 | Lollipop |
- New design (Material design)
- Speed improvement
- Battery consumption improvement
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- Several new API
- Tracking battery consumption app
| 2014-10-17 | 21 |
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Android 6.0.1 | Marshmallow | New emojis | | 2015-12-07 | 23 |
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Android 6 | Marshmallow |
- 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
| 2015-10-05 | 23 |
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Android 7.1.2 | Nougat |
- Battery usage alerts
- Nexus and Pixel specific improvements
| | 2017-04-04 | 25 |
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Android 7.1.1 | Nougat |
- Long press on the app icon enable new launch actions
- The default keyboard allows now to send GIFs directly
- New set of emojis
| | 2016-12-05 | 25 |
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Android 7.1 | Nougat |
- 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
| 2016-10-04 | 25 |
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Android 7.0 | Nougat |
- 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
| 2016-08-22 | 24 |
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Android 8.1 | Oreo |
- 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)
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- 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
| 2017-12-05 | 27 |
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Android 8.0 | Oreo |
- PIP: Picture-in-Picture with resizable windows
- Android Instant apps
- Improved notifications system
- Improved system settings
- Lock screen redesign
| | 2017-08-21 | 26 |
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Android 0.9 | Beta | 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. | | 2008-08-22 | |
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User reviews and comments
Can we use new version on Samsung Galaxy S4 sgh-m919 UVUAMDL ?
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.)