Android history: all Android versions - Android Planet

Friday, September 27, 2013 (12:16) | Daniel Verlaan

Google is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. Therefore Android Planet looks back on the Android history of the past five years.

To celebrate the birthday of Google Android Planet Android does with its great Android versions Overview.

Here is all Android versions sorted chronologically, with screenshots and information about the appropriate update. So you get a good picture of the development of Android over the past five years. In the coming years this list maintained and updated with new information on all future Android versions.

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history

September 2008 (now over 5 years ago) was the first official Android version released (Android 1.0). In the following years there are many different versions released with several ‘sweet’ names. You can check which version of Android you have yourself.

Android versions: the highlights chronologically in a row

We have the main differences and highlights of the Android versions put you in one convenient list. You have as a quick overview of the most important features and highlights per android version:

• Android 4.4 (KitKat)
• Android 4.3, Android 4.2, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
• Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
• Android 3.0 (Honeycomb)
• Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• Android 2.2 (Froyo)
• Android 2.0 (Eclair)
• Android 1.6 (Donut)
• Android 1.5 (Cupcake)
• Android 1.0

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history in brief

Android was developed by Android Inc. and Google acquired the startup in 2005. Andy Rubin, the former director and owner of Android Inc., Google moved back to where he was in charge of the development of Android. The mobile operating system using Linux and Java and was named to Android Rubin is crazy robots.

Google saw its data that more and more people took to the Internet via their mobile phone and wanted to make sure these users also use mobile Google services. With its own operating system for phones they’d better services such as Google Search and Gmail to promote. To ensure that as many manufacturers would use Android, Google decided to give.

the software away for free

Android now owns more than 80 percent of the smartphone market and growing mobile operating system hard in the tablet market. Google made recently announced that more than 1 billion Android devices are activated.

Read more about Android in our article What is Android?

Android growth in recent years

Android Planet has created an infographic that shows how Android has grown in recent years. The numbers are a percentage of the market share in the smartphone market.

Android, iOS, Blackberry and Microsoft | Infographics