Android launched commercially in 2008 on the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream) with Android 1.0. Over 18 years it added on-screen keyboards, Material Design, runtime per…
The T-Mobile G1, also known as the HTC Dream, shipped with Android 1.0, the first Android smartphone, alongside the Android Market. It had a physical keyboard, a trackba…
Android 1.5 Cupcake added an on-screen keyboard, home-screen widgets and video capture, and began the public dessert-naming tradition. Donut broadened screen and device…
Android 3.x Honeycomb was a tablet-only branch. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, launched with the Galaxy Nexus, reunited phones and tablets into one platform with the Ho…
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean introduced Google Now, which surfaced contextual, predictive cards for weather, commute time and appointments. Project Butter targeted smoother an…
Android 5.0 Lollipop brought Material Design, previewed at Google I/O 2014, with cards, elevation, motion and layers. It also replaced Dalvik with the ART runtime. The s…
Android 6.0 Marshmallow introduced runtime permissions, so apps request sensitive access when needed rather than all at install time. Doze cut background battery use, an…
Android Q became Android 10, moving public branding to numbers for global clarity. Android 10 also brought a full gesture navigation system, granular privacy and locatio…
Android 12 introduced Material You: the system extracts colours from your wallpaper and applies them across the lock screen, notifications, widgets and apps. Google Tens…
Android 14 added Health Connect, Ultra HDR and lock-screen customisation. In December 2023, Gemini Nano began running on the Pixel 8 Pro, powering Recorder summarisation…
Google introduced Gemini Intelligence in May 2026 and released Android 17 on 16 June 2026, describing the shift from an operating system to an intelligence system. AppFu…
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