Most Android releases have candy or cake names. The first version of the OS (1.0), publicly released in September 2008, had no name, either inside the system or outside it. Developer Jean-Baptiste Queru officially released Android Police in 2012, anonymous. Also, another, earlier version of Android 1.1, released in February 2009, had no name. During development, throughout the history of Android, this version was used only with the internal name Petit four, which is related to the French dessert. All future versions of Android also had names composed using the names of desserts in alphabetical order. Many people like to think that this is because of the “goodies” that the program offers users, but most likely the authors have a very good sense of humor, and they seem to like delicious desserts.
Android brand development
Almost 10 years have passed since the first official Android phone debuted on the market. Google’s decision to make the Android OS open source has allowed it to become very popular with all leading phone manufacturers. Just a few years after the launch of Android 1. 1 petit four, smartphones with OS installed were everywhere. Now it has become the most popular mobile OS in the world, having defeated many competitors such as Symbian, BlackBerry, Palm OS, webOS and Windows Phone. Apple's iOS is the only platform that remains a serious competitor to Android.
In October 2003, Android Inc was founded in Palo Alto. The OS was originally intended to improve digital camera systems. The company made a breakthrough in 2004, showing how Android installed on the camera can connect wirelessly to a PC. Then this computer was supposed to connect to Android Datacenter, where camera owners could store their photos on the Internet on a cloud server. According to the story of Android, her team at first did not think about creating an OS for a mobile computing system.
But even at that time, the market for stand-alone digital cameras was not too large and tended to decline. Therefore, after a few months, Android Inc decided to switch to using the OS inside mobile phones. In 2005, the original company was acquired by Google.
Rubin and other creators of the program continued to develop the OS, but already under new owners. It was decided to use Linux as the basis for the Android OS, which meant that the program could be offered for free to third-party mobile phone manufacturers. Google and the Android team realized that a company could make money by offering other services that the OS used, including applications.
The next stage in the history of Android. In September 2008, the very first Android smartphone was announced. It went on sale in the United States in October of that year. A 3.2-inch pop-up phone with a QWERTY physical keyboard was not ideal in design. However, Android 1.0 has already interspersed Google’s business plan for the OS.
He combined a number of other products and services of the company, including Google Maps, YouTube and the HTML browser (pre-Chrome) and the Google search service. The program featured the first version of the Android Market, the app store, to which Google assigned a special role, proudly declaring that it “will provide dozens of unique, first of its kind, Android apps.” All these functions now sound rather primitive, but this was only the beginning of growth in the mobile device market.
Android logo
The story of Android began with the creation of a brand logo. Initially, the famous logo for the Android OS, which looks like a green robot, was created by Irina Block, a Google employee. The only directive of the Google design team was to make the logo look like a robot. After that, Block and Google decided to make the Android robot an open source project. Today, the robot is modified and used by many people, because Google allows some design changes under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
Cupcake was the first version of Android with a public code and the name "delicious treat." Google annually reveals the name of the new version and places its statue on the lawn in front of the Visitor Center in Mountain View, California. The statues themselves are made of polystyrene using solid filler, painted and sent 3,000 miles to California for official opening. So in the history of the company happens almost every year, so there are so many versions of Android, how many years have passed since the official opening of the system. Today, this number is 9.
Download YouTube from Cupcake
After launching Android 1.5, just a few months later, in April 2009, the OS version got its first public name: Cupcake. It added several new features and improvements over the first two public versions, including those things that many now take for granted, for example, the ability to upload videos to YouTube and automatically display the rotation of the phone screen, as well as support for third-party keyboards. New features were added that included support for operators using the network.
This allowed Android phones to be sold by operators around the world, and how many versions of Android exist today and what features each can be specified on the manufacturer’s official website. Some of the phones released with the Cupcake installed out of the box included the first Samsung Galaxy phone along with HTC Hero. This was a new approach for Google, and the company began working closer with HTC hardware maker to showcase clean Android.
Donut Based CDMA Support
Google quickly launched 1.6 Donut in September 2009. It had the functions of introducing a quick search box and quick switching between camera, camcorder and gallery to simplify the process of capturing multimedia. Donut also introduced the Power Control widget to control Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, etc. One of the phones that was sold with the installed version was the ill-fated Dell Streak, which had a huge 5-inch screen for that time. The latest version of Android in 2009, Google released with the official name Eclair. This version was the first with text-to-speech support, live wallpapers, multiple account support, and Google Maps navigation.
The Motorola Droid was the first phone to include Android 2.0 out of the box. The phone was also the first Android-based phone to be sold by Verizon Wireless. Although it was safer for Google to use Android as the name for its OS, the term Droid was a trademark of Lucasfilm for robots in the Star Wars franchise. Motorola continues to use the Droid brand for many of its phones until today.
Version 2.2 of Froyo was officially launched in May 2010. Smartphones with Froyo installed were able to take advantage of several new features, including the functions of the mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, push notifications via the Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, flash memory support, etc. The first smartphone with the Nexus One brand, Released with Android 2.1 in early 2010, it soon received a new Froyo update.
Gingerbread Interface Update
Android 2.3 Gingerbread, launched in September 2010, is currently the oldest operating system in use. Google still lists it on its version update page . Google claims that in 2017, 0.6% of all devices still use Gingerbread and today users can get an update to the Android version on their phone. Gingerbread has added a short-range function for smartphones with the necessary equipment. The first phone to use Gingerbread with NFC hardware was the Nexus S, which was jointly developed by Google and Samsung.
Gingerbread has also added support for cameras and video chat in Google Talk. The tablet version of Honeycomb released by Google for installation only on tablets and mobile devices with large displays. It was first demonstrated in February 2011 along with the first Motorola Xoom tablet and included updates in the form of a redesigned user interface for large screens and a notification panel located at the bottom of the tablet display.
The idea was that Honeycomb offered specific features that couldn't be handled by the smaller displays that existed on smartphones at the time. It was also a response from Google and its partners to Apple's iPad release in 2010. Despite the fact that Honeycomb was available, some tablets were still released with versions of Android 2.x based on smartphones. In the end, Honeycomb turned out to be a version that was not really needed, because Google decided to integrate most of its features into the next version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Unlocking your phone with Ice Cream Sandwich
Android 2.3 Gingerbread, launched in September 2010, is currently the oldest operating system in use. Google still lists it on its version update page. Google claims that in 2017, 0.6% of all devices still use Gingerbread and today users can get an update to the Android version on their phone. Gingerbread has added a short-range function for smartphones with the necessary equipment. The first phone to use Gingerbread with NFC hardware was the Nexus S, which was jointly developed by Google and Samsung.
Gingerbread has also added support for cameras and video chat in Google Talk. The tablet version of Honeycomb released by Google for installation only on tablets and mobile devices with large displays. It was first demonstrated in February 2011 along with the first Motorola Xoom tablet and included updates in the form of a redesigned user interface for large screens and a notification panel located at the bottom of the tablet display.
The idea was that Honeycomb offered specific features that couldn't be handled by the smaller displays that existed on smartphones at the time. It was also a response from Google and its partners to Apple's iPad release in 2010. Despite the fact that Honeycomb was available, some tablets were still released with versions of Android 2.x based on smartphones. In the end, Honeycomb turned out to be a version that was not really needed, because Google decided to integrate most of its features into the next version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
KitKat version for smartphones
Android 4.4 is the first version of the OS that actually uses the previously registered trade name for sweets. KitKat did not have a lot of new features, but it really had one thing that really helped expand the overall Android market and was optimized for smartphones with 512 MB of RAM. Google’s Nexus 5 was the first Android 4.4 preloaded. Despite the fact that KitKat was launched almost four years ago, there are still many devices that use it. The current update page for the Google platform version says that 15.1% of all Android devices use Android 4.4 KitKat versions.
Android 5.0 Lollipop, released in the fall of 2014, was a major shock to the overall look of the OS. This was the first version of the OS using Google’s new material design language, which, in particular, facilitated the implementation of lighting and shadow effects to mimic the paper look of the Android user interface. The user interface also received some changes for Lollipop, including an updated navigation bar, rich notifications for the lockscreen and much more.
A subsequent update to Android 5.1 made a few more changes. They included official support for two SIM cards, HD voice calls and device protection, so that attackers were blocked on the phone even after resetting the settings. Google’s Nexus 6 smartphone and Nexus 9 tablet were the first devices to preinstall Lollipop. Currently, Android 5.0 Lollipop is installed and used by approximately 29 percent of all active Android devices, according to statistics from the Google platform version.
Vertical Scroll Marshmallow
Released in the fall of 2015, Android 6.0 Marshmallow includes new Google Now on Tap vertical scrolling apps, built-in support for biometric unlocking your smartphone, USB Type-C support, the introduction of Android Pay, and much more. The first devices preloaded with Marshmallow were the Google Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X smartphones, as well as the Pixel C tablet.
Current statistics on the Android platform show that Marshmallow almost overtook Lollipop as the most installed version of the OS, which accounts for 32.2 percent of all Android.
Android version 7. 0 nougat of the Google system launched in the fall of 2016. Many of Nougat’s new features included the best multitasking features for a growing number of smartphones with large displays, such as split-screen mode, as well as quick switching between applications.
In addition, Google made several important changes:
- Switch to the new JIT compiler to speed up applications.
- Support for the DayDream Virtual Reality platform.
In early July, information was provided on the Android statistics page that Android 7 1 nougat is now installed on 15.8% of all Android devices. This number is likely to continue to grow in the coming months, even as Google prepares to release the next major Android OS update. This allows phone manufacturers to get the latest version and install it on much cheaper phones.
Visual Oreo features. In March 2017, Google officially announced and released the first preview for Android O, also known as Android 8 1 Oreo. In August, Google confirmed that Oreo would indeed be the public name for Android 8.0. Google for the second time chose the brand name for Android (Oreo is owned by Nabisco). In isolation from its tradition, Google first demonstrated the Android Oreo mascot statue at a press conference in New York, instead of showing the statue first at Googleplex headquarters.
As for its capabilities, Android 8 0 Oreo contains many visual changes in the Settings menu, as well as its own support for the Picture-in-Picture mode, notification channels, new autocompletion APIs for better password management and data filling, and much more. Android Oreo is available for download through the Google Open Source Project from Google, and is also available as an update to older (and supported) Google Nexus and Pixel devices. Android Oreo also comes with Google’s own Pixel 2 pixels.
Expansion of autonomy with 9.0 Pie
The latest version of Android in 2018. Google launched the first developer preview of the next major Android 9.0 update on March 7, 2018. On August 6, the company officially launched the final version of Android 9.0 and assigned it the official name - Pie. It includes a number of major new features and changes. One of them overloads the traditional navigation buttons in favor of one elongated button in the center, which is the new home button. Scrolling up from this buttom brings up a review, with the most recently used apps, a search bar and five sentences below. You can scroll left to view all recently opened applications, or drag the main button to the right to quickly scroll through them.
The Android 9. 0 system has some new features designed to increase the battery life of the smartphone, including the use of training in the device to predict which applications will be used. Pie also has Shush, a feature that automatically puts your phone in Do Not Disturb when it rotates the phone’s screen down a flat surface. There is also Slices, which provides a smaller version of the installed application in Google Search, offering certain features without opening the full application. As usual, the Android Pie will be the first to be available for Pixel phones from Google, but it is also available for Essential Phone. It will be released on other Android smartphones and devices in the coming weeks or months.
The future of the green robot
Android has come a long way from its humble beginnings to the point where it has become the leading mobile operating system worldwide. Today, Google is in the very early stages of developing an entirely new OS called Fuchsia, which can support everything from smartphones to tablets, laptops, and even desktop PCs. The history of Android shows that Google is still extremely committed to the idea of brand development and even tried to expand the mobile and tablet OS to other devices, including Android TV, Android Auto and WearOS.
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