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History Of The Android Operating System And All Its Versions

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History Of The Android Operating System And All Its Versions

Sometimes it seems that Google's mobile operating system has always worked on our Android devices. In fact, it has been a little over ten years since the first stores official Android phone were successful.

The most important investment in the history of Android was Google's commitment to making it an open source operating system . This has made it very popular with external phone manufacturers. A few years after the introduction of Android 1.0, smartphones with the new operating system appeared everywhere.

12 years later they celebrate the launch of Android 11 , which has become the most popular mobile operating system in the world, ahead of many competitors such as Symbian, BlackBerry, Palm OS, webOS and Windows Phone. iOS Apple's is the only platform that remains a serious competitor to Android , and it doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon. 

 

History of the Android operating system

History of the Android operating system


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The history of Android began in October 2003 , long before the term "smartphone" became widely used and a few years before Apple announced the launch of its first iPhone and iOS.

Android Inc was founded in Palo Alto, California . The four founders were Rich Miner, Nick Sears, Chris White, and Andy Rubin. At the same time , Rubin said that Android Inc. "will develop smarter mobile devices that allow a better understanding of the location and preferences of their owners."

Speaking in Tokyo in 2013, Ruby said that the Android operating system was originally designed to improve operating systems digital camera . But even so, the market for standalone digital cameras was in decline. In a few months, Android Inc. decided to switch to a mobile operating system.

In 2005, another great chapter in Android history began with the purchase of the original Google company . Ruby and the other founding members developed the operating system under its new owners.

It was decided to use Linux as the basis for the Android operating system . This means that the operating system can be freely offered to other mobile phone manufacturers. Google and the Android team believed that the company could make money by offering other services through the operating system, including applications.

Ruby stayed at Google as the head of the Android team until 2013, when Mountain View announced that she was leaving the department . By the end of 2014, Ruby had completely left Google to create a business incubator, and in 2017 she returned to the smartphone business with poor Essential.

The well-known Android operating system logo, which looks like a combination of robot and green beetle , was developed by Irina Blok during her work at Google. Block points out to the Google design team that the main task he received was to give the logo the appearance of a robot.

According to Block, the final design of the android mascot was inspired in part by the look of the famous "male" and "female" bathroom logos.

Something that Blok and Google decided to turn the android robot into an open source project . Almost all other large companies will protect such a logo or mascot from changes in design and use by others.

However, the Android bot has been modified and used by tons of people ever since, and only because Google allows such modifications with the Creative Commons 3.0 license attribute.

The android mascot, also known as "Andy". - was redesigned in 2019 along with much of the Android brand. Andy may have lost his body, but the new look is now much more common on the Android brand.

In 2007 Apple released its first iPhone , ushering in a new era of mobile computing. During this period, Google was still secretly working on Android, but in November of this year the company slowly began to reveal its plans to compete with Apple and other mobile platforms.

Google was responsible for an important event : the creation of the "Open Handset Alliance". They include cell phone makers like HTC and Motorola, chipmakers like Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, and network operators like T-Mobile.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google: "Today the announcement is more favorable than any other speculation of the press on Google's phone in recent weeks" ... "We have a vision that the powerful platform we have developed will lead to thousands of different types of phones " ..

 


Android 1.0 Launch

The open beta version for Android 1.0 was released to developers on November 5, 2007. In September 2008 the first Android smartphone was announced: T-Mobile G1, also known as HTC Dream in other parts of the world.

It was launched in the United States in October of the same year. The phone with a foldable 3.2-inch touchscreen combined with a physical QWERTY keyboard wasn't exactly a wonderful project. The T-Mobile G1 also received poor reviews from tech environments.

The device didn't even have a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, which was actually part of the phone's functionality , unlike today's Android competition.

However, Android OS 1.0 already included a Google plan for the operating system . The company's other products and services include Google Maps, YouTube, and the HTML browser (Pre-Chrome), which of course uses Google's search services.

It also introduced the first version of the Android Market , the App Store, which Google is proud to announce will be "dozens of unique world-class applications for Android."

All of these features seem quite primitive nowadays , but this was only the beginning of the Android tree in the mobile market.

Below we show you a list of all versions of the Android operating system from 1.5 to version 11, with their characteristics and functions.

The first official public codename for Android appeared in April 2009 , when Cupcake 1.5. The honor of calling the Android versions after desserts and cakes traditionally belongs to Google project leader Ryan Gibson.

However, no specific reasons are known for its use of the naming convention. This cake has added some new features and improvements to the first two public releases.

These include things we now take for granted, such as the ability to upload videos to YouTube, the ability to automatically launch phone screens, and support for third-party keyboards.

Among the phones that were released after the installation of the cupcake was, in addition to the HTC Hero, the first Samsung Galaxy phone.

Google quickly released Android 1.6 Donut in September 2009 , and the new operating system now supports carriers using CDMA networks. This allowed all operators around the world to sell Android phones.

Other features include a quick search field and the ability to quickly switch between cameras , cameras, and galleries to optimize media storage. Donut also introduced the Power Control Widget to control Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and other devices.

One of the phones sold with Donut installed was an unfortunate Dell Streak. It had a large 5-inch screen (at the time) and was described on our website as a "smartphone / tablet". Currently, the 5-inch screen is considered relatively small for a smartphone.

In October 2009, about a year after the release of Android 1.0, Google released version 2.0 of the operating system under the official code name Eclair.

This version added support for text to speech for the first time, and introduced many new features and improvements, live wallpapers, support for multiple accounts and navigation in Google Maps , among others.

Other features

The Motorola Droid was the first phone to support Android 2.0 right out of the box. Droid was also the first Android phone sold by Verizon Wireless.

For fun, while Google can safely use Android as the name of its operating system, Lucasfilm trademarked the term "Droid" for robots in the "Star Wars" franchise. Motorola had to get permission and pay Lucasfilm to use their phone name. In 2016 , Motorola was already using the Droid brand on many of its phones.

Android 2.2 Froyo (short for "frozen yogurt") was officially released in May 2010 . Froyo-powered smartphones can utilize several new features, including a mobile phone Wi-Fi hotspot, Android cloud notifications for device messaging (C2DM), Flash support, and more.

The first Google-branded smartphone , the Nexus One, launched with Android 2.1 in early 2010, but it still received a quick update from Froyo this year.

This was a new approach for Google , as the company has worked more than ever with hardware maker HTC to implement pure Android.

Android 2.3 Gingerbread Bread was released in September 2010 . In the Gingerbread section, the operating system received a user interface update.

Support was added for Near Field Communication (NFC) functions for smartphones with the necessary equipment. The first phone equipped with a Gingerbread and NFC equipment is the Nexus S, jointly developed by Google and Samsung.

Gingerbread bread also laid the foundation for the "I " by adding support for multiple cameras and support for Google Talk video chat.

This version of the operating system is probably a funny thing. It is designed for tablets and other widescreen mobile devices. It was first introduced in February 2011 with Motorola's Xoom tablet.

It includes features like a redesigned user interface for large screens and a notification bar at the bottom of the tablet.

The idea was that Honeycomb had to offer features that couldn't work with the small screens that smartphones currently have. It was also a response from Google and its outside partners to the launch of Apple's iPad in 2010.

Despite the availability of Honeycomb, some pills were still available with version 2.x of Android. Finally, Honeycomb was a version of Android that was not widely available . Google decided to integrate most of the features into the next big version 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich. This is a bit unusual in the history of Android.

The Android Ice Cream Sandwich, released in October 2011 , brought a host of new features. Combine many variations of the cell phone version with gingerbread on your smartphone.

It also included a "favorites tray " on the home screen and first aid for unlocking the phone by taking a picture of the owner's face with the camera. Since then, this type of biometric call bearer has evolved and improved considerably.

Other significant changes to the SCI include support for all screen buttons, sliders to remove notifications and browser cards, and the ability to monitor data usage via mobile phone and Wi-Fi.


Android 4.1 was released in June 2012, while Google quickly released versions 4.2 and 4.3 - both under the name of gum - in October 2012 and July 2013 respectively.

New features in these software updates include new notification features that display more content or action buttons, as well as full compatibility with the Android version of Google Chrome, which is included in Android 4.2.

Google now appears in a search engine, and Butter Project has been introduced to speed up Android animation and improve Android's touch sensitivity. It supports external displays and Miracast, as well as HDR photos.

Android 4.4 is the first version of the operating system to actually use a previously protected name for candy.

Before its official launch in September 2013, the company indicated at a Google I / O conference the same year that the codename for Android 4.4 would actually be "Key lime pie." In fact, most of the Google Android team thought it would.

Finally, John Lagerling, director of Google's global partnership with Android, discovered that "key lime pie" is not a very well-known and useful name around the world. Instead, he chose to do something else.

Other features

He contacted Nestlé, the maker of the KitKat bar, and asked if he could use the Android 4.4 name. "Nestlé agreed, and KitCat became the name of the next version of Android ... It was a marketing experiment, which Google only resumed with the introduction of Oreo (we'll come back to that later).

There weren't many new features in KitKat, but there was one thing that really helped expand the Android market as a whole. It was optimized to work on smartphones with only 512MB of RAM.

This allows phone manufacturers to use the latest version of Android on many cheaper phones . Google's Nexus 5 is the first smartphone with Android 4.4 pre-installed.

Android 5.0 Lollipop was first released in the fall of 2014 and dramatically changed the look of the operating system. It was the first version of the operating system to use Google's new hardware design language.

In particular, it made extensive use of light and shadow effects to simulate Android UI paperwork. The interface has also undergone other improvements , such as a redesigned navigation bar, extensive lock notifications and much more.

Subsequent Android 5.1 updates made more changes under the hood . This involves official support for two SIM cards, high-definition voice calls, and protection of the phone so thieves don't get near it even after the factory reset. Google Nexus 6 is the first Lollipop smartphone pre-installed with the Nexus 9 tablet.

Released in the fall of 2015, Marshmallow Android 6.0 is used as the main symbol of tourist treatment . Inside Google it used the "macadamia cookie notes" for Android 6.0 to officially announce Marshmallow.

It included features like a new app tray for vertical scrolling, as well as Google Now on Tap, built-in support for unlocking biometric fingerprints , support for USB Type-C, introduction of Android Pay (now Google Pay), and much more.

The first devices to come with marshmallows pre-installed are the Google Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X smartphones and a Pixel-C tablet.

Version 7.0 of the Google mobile operating system, released in Fall 2016. Before Nugat, "Android N" was internally named "New York Cheesecake" by Google .

Among the many new features of Nugat are advanced multitasking capabilities for the growing number of smartphones with large screens, such as split screen mode , as well as the ability to quickly switch between applications.

Other features

Google has made some big behind-the-scenes changes, too. To speed up applications, it was switched to the new JIT compiler , supported the API Vulkan for faster 3D rendering , and allowed OEMs to support the now closed VR Daydream platform.

Google also used this post to make a breakthrough in the high-end smartphone market. Pixel and Pixel XL and LG V20 were the first to be released from scratch pre-installed.

In March 2017, Google announced and officially released its first Android O development trailer , also known as Android 8.0. In August, Google confirmed a cookie-inspired public name for Android 8.0, the second time the company chose the brand for Android (Oreo belongs to Nabisco).

Breaking tradition, Google first unveiled the image of Android's mascot, Oreo, at a press event in New York City, not at the Googleplex headquarters . Its logo shows the android mascot as a flying superhero with a cape.

Other features

The second statue was placed on Google later that day. In terms of functionality, Android Oreo made many visual changes to the settings menu, as well as built-in support for Picture-in-Picture mode, alert channels,

New API for self-service data entry for better management of passwords, data and among other things. Android Oreo was first installed on Google Pixel 2 phones.

On March 7, 2018 Google released the developers' first forecast for another major Android update, Android 9.0 P. On August 6, 2018 the company officially released the final version of Android 9.0 and gave it the official codename " Foot".

Android 9.0 Pie contains many new features and major changes . One of them left the traditional navigation buttons in favor of an extended button in the middle, which became a new button at home.

When scrolling up, this button gives you an overview of recently used apps, a search bar, and five app tips at the bottom. You can drag to the left to see all the applications you just opened, or you can drag the Home button to the right to quickly see the applications.

Other features

Android 9.0 also includes a number of new features to extend your phone's battery life. This is done with the device's built-in self-learning feature, which predicts which apps you will use now and which ones in the future.

Pie also has a Shush feature that automatically switches the phone to standby when the phone's screen is rotated. There is also Slices, a shortened version of the application installed on the Google search engine, which provides some of the application features without opening the full application.

As usual, Android 9.0 Pie was officially released for Pixel phones Google's for the first time, but it was also released at the same time on the base phone.

Ten years after the launch of the operating system, they have reached another milestone in Android history. On March 13, 2019, Google released the first official Android Q developer trailer, and on August 22, 2019, it announced a major update to the Android brand.

This includes a new logo and, more importantly, the decision to abandon the traditional dessert name for the next version. As a result, Android Q is now officially known as Android 10 and was officially released on Google's pixel-based devices on September 3, 2019.

Other features

As usual, with each new version of Android, Android 10 contained a number of new features and improvements , as well as a number of new APIs . This includes support for attacking the closest flip phones.

Android 10 also introduced a system-wide dark mode, as well as new navigation control gestures, more powerful sharing menus, smart reply features for all news apps, and more control over app-based permissions.

On February 18, Google released the first trailer for Android 11 developers, and after several other public bets , the final version of Android 11 was released on September 8, 2020.

Android 11 comes with a ton of new features. Among them is a new notification category called "Connections", which collects all the connections from different applications in one place.

It also has the ability to store all the notifications that have appeared on your phone in the last 24 hours.

Other features

A new feature allows you to record your phone screen with sound without using any third party applications. The new section of Android 11 is also dedicated to working with smart home devices.

However, pixel phones use the unique feature of Android 11 , which uses AI and machine learning to control the apps that appear on the phone's docking station.

Google has installed its traditional Android 11 statue and has also released an AR version of the statue for all ARCore Android phones.

 

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