History of Android Versions And Overview
Android is a versatile working framework created by Google, in light of the Linux portion and composed principally for touchscreen cell phones, for example, cell phones and tablets. Android's UI is fundamentally in light of direct control, utilizing touch motions that freely relate to certifiable activities, for example, swiping, tapping and squeezing, to control on-screen objects, alongside a virtual console for content information. Notwithstanding touchscreen gadgets, Google has additionally created Android TV for TVs, Android Auto for autos, and Android Wear for wrist watches, each with a specific UI. Variations of Android are additionally utilized on amusement comforts, advanced cameras, PCs and different hardware.
The establishing of Android
At first created by Android Inc., which Google purchased in 2005, Android was disclosed in 2007, alongside the establishment of the Open Handset Alliance – a consortium of equipment, programming, and media transmission organizations dedicated to propelling open principles for cell phones. Starting with the main business Android gadget in September 2008, the working framework has experienced different significant discharges, with the present adaptation being 8.0 "Oreo", discharged in August 2017. Android ("applications") can be downloaded from the Google Play store, which includes more than 2.7 million applications as of February 2017. Android has been the smash hit OS on tablets since 2013, and keeps running on the tremendous majority[a] of cell phones. As of May 2017, Android has two billion month to month dynamic clients, and it has the biggest introduced base of any working framework.
While that sounds like the essential depiction of a cell phone, Rubin uncovered in a 2013 discourse in Tokyo that Android OS was initially intended to enhance the working frameworks of computerized cameras, as revealed by PC World. The organization made contributes to financial specialists 2004 that indicated how Android, introduced on a camera, would associate remotely to a PC. That PC would then associate with an "Android Datacentre", where camera proprietors could store their photographs online on a cloud server.
Clearly, the group at Android didn't contemplate making an OS that would fill in as the core of an entire versatile processing framework all alone. Be that as it may, even in those days, the market for remain solitary computerized cameras was declining and a couple of months after the fact, Android Inc chose to change gears towards utilizing the OS inside cell phones. As Rubin said in 2013, "precisely the same, precisely the same framework we worked for cameras, that moved toward becoming Android for cellphones."
The establishing of Android
At first created by Android Inc., which Google purchased in 2005, Android was disclosed in 2007, alongside the establishment of the Open Handset Alliance – a consortium of equipment, programming, and media transmission organizations dedicated to propelling open principles for cell phones. Starting with the main business Android gadget in September 2008, the working framework has experienced different significant discharges, with the present adaptation being 8.0 "Oreo", discharged in August 2017. Android ("applications") can be downloaded from the Google Play store, which includes more than 2.7 million applications as of February 2017. Android has been the smash hit OS on tablets since 2013, and keeps running on the tremendous majority[a] of cell phones. As of May 2017, Android has two billion month to month dynamic clients, and it has the biggest introduced base of any working framework.
While that sounds like the essential depiction of a cell phone, Rubin uncovered in a 2013 discourse in Tokyo that Android OS was initially intended to enhance the working frameworks of computerized cameras, as revealed by PC World. The organization made contributes to financial specialists 2004 that indicated how Android, introduced on a camera, would associate remotely to a PC. That PC would then associate with an "Android Datacentre", where camera proprietors could store their photographs online on a cloud server.
Clearly, the group at Android didn't contemplate making an OS that would fill in as the core of an entire versatile processing framework all alone. Be that as it may, even in those days, the market for remain solitary computerized cameras was declining and a couple of months after the fact, Android Inc chose to change gears towards utilizing the OS inside cell phones. As Rubin said in 2013, "precisely the same, precisely the same framework we worked for cameras, that moved toward becoming Android for cellphones."
| Android version names |
Code name |
Version number | Initial release date | API level | Security patches[1] |
| (No codename)[2] | 1 | September 23, 2008 | 1 | Unsupported |
| (Internally known as "Petit Four")[2] | 1.1 | February 9, 2009 | 2 | Unsupported |
| Cupcake | 1.5 | April 27, 2009 | 3 | Unsupported |
| Donut | 1.6 | September 15, 2009 | 4 | Unsupported |
| Eclair | 2.0 – 2.1 | October 26, 2009 | 5 – 7 | Unsupported |
| Froyo | 2.2 – 2.2.3 | May 20, 2010 | 8 | Unsupported |
| Gingerbread | 2.3 – 2.3.7 | December 6, 2010 | 9 – 10 | Unsupported |
| Honeycomb | 3.0 – 3.2.6 | February 22, 2011 | 11 – 13 | Unsupported |
| Ice Cream Sandwich | 4.0 – 4.0.4 | October 18, 2011 | 14 – 15 | Unsupported |
| Jelly Bean | 4.1 – 4.3.1 | July 9, 2012 | 16 – 18 | Unsupported |
| KitKat | 4.4 – 4.4.4 | October 31, 2013 | 19 – 20 | Unsupported[11] |
| Lollipop | 5.0 – 5.1.1 | November 12, 2014 | 21 – 22 | Supported |
| Marshmallow | 6.0 – 6.0.1 | October 5, 2015 | 23 | Supported |
| Nougat | 7.0 – 7.1.2 | August 22, 2016 | 24 – 25 | Supported |
| Oreo | 8.0 – 8.1 | August 21, 2017 | 26 – 27 | Supported |
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