Pie/Android 9
(2018 Aug 9/API-28) |
User interface updates:
- Rounded corners across the UI
- Quick settings menu change.
- Notification bar, the clock has moved to the left.
- The “dock” now has a semi-transparent background.
- New transitions when switching between apps, or within
apps
- Volume slider updated
- Richer messaging notifications: with full conversation, large
images, smart replies
- The power options now has a “screenshot” button
- Biometric authentication can now be disabled only once
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Oreo/Android 8.1
(2017 Dec 5/API-27) |
- Show battery level in “Quick Settings” for devices connected
via Bluetooth
- Navigation buttons dim when not in use
- UI updates to ‘Power Off’ and ‘Restart’
- Toast messages are now white in color with same existing
transparency
- Automatic light and dark themes
- Emoji updates (ie: Hamburger move the cheese slice
position)
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- Neural networks API for artificial intelligence
- Shared memory API
- WallpaperColors API
- Programmatic Safe Browsing actions
- Autofill framework updates
- Go Edition: lightweight Android distribution for
devices with less than 1 GB of RAM
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Oreo/Android 8.0
(2017 Aug 21/API-26) |
- PIP: Picture-in-Picture with resizable windows
- Android Instant apps
- Improved notifications system
- Improved system settings
- Lock screen redesign
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Nougat/Android 7.1.2
(2017 Apr 4/API-25) |
- Battery usage alerts
- Nexus and Pixel specific improvements
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Nougat/Android 7.1.1
(2016 Dec 5/API-25) |
- Long press on the app icon enable new launch actions
- The default keyboard allows now to send GIFs directly
- New set of emojis
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Nougat/Android 7.1
(2016 Oct 4/API-25) |
- Daydream Virtual Reality mode
- Night Light
- Storage manager improvements
- Performance improvements for Touch and Display managements
- Option to enable fingerprint swipe down gesture
- Seamless system updates
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- Shortcut manager APIs
- Support Circular app icons
- Keyboard image insertion
- VR thread scheduling improvements
- Enhanced wallpaper metadata
- Multi-endpoint call support
- Source type support for Visual Voicemail
- Carrier config options to manage video telephony
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Nougat/Android 7.0
(2016 Aug 22/API-24) |
- Unicode 9.0 emoji
- Better multitasking
- Multi-window mode (PIP, Freeform window)
- Seamless system updates (with dual system partition)
- Better performance and code size thanks to new JIT
Compiler
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- Sustained Performance Mode (SPM) API
- Vulkan 3D rendering API
- Daydream virtual reality platform
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Marshmallow/Android 6.0.1
(2015 Dec 7/API-23) |
New emojis |
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Marshmallow/Android 6
(2015 Oct 5/API-23) |
- USB Type-C support
- Fingerprint Authentication support
- Better battery life with “deep sleep”
- Permissions dashboard
- Android Pay
- MIDI support
- Google Now improvements
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- Custom Chrome Tabs for better in app browser support
- App Permissions management update
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Lollipop/Android 5.1.1
(2015 Apr 21/API-22) |
- Speed improvement
- Bug fixes
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Lollipop/Android 5.1
(2015 Mar 9/API-22) |
- Multiple SIM cards support
- Quick settings shortcuts to join Wi-Fi networks or control
Bluetooth devices
- Lock protection if lost or stolen
- High Definition voice call
- Stability and performance enhancements
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Lollipop/Android 5.0.2
(2014 Dec 19/API-21) |
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
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Lollipop/Android 5.0.1
(2014 Dec 2/API-21) |
- bug fixes, fix issues with video playback and password
failures
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Lollipop/Android 5.0
(2014 Oct 17/API-21) |
- New design (Material design)
- Speed improvement
- Battery consumption improvement
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- Several new API
- Tracking battery consumption app
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KitKat/Android 4.4.4
(2014 Jun 23/API-19) |
- Fix Heartbleed / OpenSSL vulnerability
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KitKat/Android 4.4.3
(2014 Apr 14/API-19) |
- Bug fixes
- Enable Sprint Spark band 26 and band 41
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KitKat/Android 4.4.2
(2013 Dec 9/API-19) |
- Bug fixes
- Security enhancements
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KitKat/Android 4.4.1
(2013 Dec 5/API-19) |
- Bug fixes
- Enhance the camera on the Nexus 5
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KitKat/Android 4.4
(2013 Oct 31/API-19) |
- Screen recording
- New Translucent system UI
- Enhanced notification access
- System-wide settings for closed captioning
- Performance improvements
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- Public API for SMS management.
- Improved memory usage
- Security enhancements (SELinux enforcing mode, new
cryptographic algorithms, VPN per user…)
- NFC Host Card Emulation (for wireless payment, loyalty
programs…)
- Printing Framework
- Storage Access Framework
- Hardware Sensor Batching
- Full-screen immersive mode
- GLES2.0 SurfaceFlinger
- Chromium WebView
- Audio tunneling to DSP
- Audio monitoring
- Wi-Fi certified Miracast
- New Bluetooth profile
- IR Blasters API
- Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) support
- Tools for analyzing memory use (procstats, on-device memory
status and profiling)
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Jelly Bean/Android 4.3
(2013 Jul 24/API-18) |
- Dial pad auto-complete
- Photo Sphere enhancements
- Camera app UI updated
- 4K resolution support
- Ability to create restricted profiles for tablets
- Hebrew and Arabic right-to-left (RTL) support
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support
- Bluetooth Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.3
support
- Security and performance enhancements
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- OpenGL for Embedded Systems 3.0 graphics support
- Logging and analyzing enhancements
- Wi-Fi scanning API
- Improved DRM (digital rights management) API
- VP8 encoding
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Jelly Bean/Android 4.2.2
(2013 Feb 11/API-17) |
- Allow toggling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth state in Quick Settings
using long-press
- Shows the percentage and estimated time remaining in the active
download notifications
- Wireless charging and low battery sounds changed
- Gallery app updated for faster loading with new image
transition
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes (Bluetooth A2DP audio
streaming fix…)
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- Secure USB debugging (allow debugging to authenticated
computers only)
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Jelly Bean/Android 4.2.1
(2012 Nov 27/API-17) |
- Fix missing december bug in the People app
- Add support for Bluetooth gamepads and joysticks HID
devices
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Jelly Bean/Android 4.2
(2012 Nov 13/API-17) |
- Lockscreen widgets
- 360 degree images with Photo Sphere
- Gesture Typing, for faster typing
- Wireless display with Miracast
- Daydream to display information when idle or docked
- Multi-user for tablets
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- vsync timing
- Triple buffering
- reduced touch latency
- CPU input boost
- Native RTL support – mirrors the display from manifest
prop
- External display support – Display Manager
- Nested fragments
- Renderscript Compute – run tasks on the GPU (supported
devices)
- Renderscript ScriptGroups, built-in intrinsics like blur,
- FilterScript is a subset of Renderscript made for high
performance image processing
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Jelly Bean/Android 4.1.2
(2012 Oct 9/API-16) |
- Enable Home screen rotation
- Fix bugs and enhance performances
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Jelly Bean/Android 4.1.1
(2012 Jul 23/API-16) |
- Fix a bug on screen orientation
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Jelly Bean/Android 4.1
(2012 Jul 9/API-16) |
- Google Now ( http://youtu.be/pPqliPzHYyc )
- Voice Search
- Speed enhancements
- Camera app improvements
- Accessibility: gesture mode, enable braille external
keyboards…
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- app stack navigation to define a parent activity in manifest
for deep navigation
- MediaActionSound class to make sounds like when a camera takes
a photo
- NFC supports large payloads over bluetooth
- WIFI/WIFI-Direct service discovery
- Large, detailed, multi-action notifications
- Input manager allows you to query input devices
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Ice Cream Sandwich/Android 4.0.4
(2012 Mar 28/API-15) |
- stability improvements
- better camera performance
- smoother screen rotation
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Ice Cream Sandwich/Android 4.0.3
(2011 Dec 16/API-15) |
- Social stream API in Contacts provider to show updates
associated to your contacts
- Video stabilization and QVGA video resolution API access
- Accessibility API refinements for screen readers
- Calendar provider updates
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Ice Cream Sandwich/Android 4.0.2
(2011 Nov 28/API-14) |
Minor fixes |
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Ice Cream Sandwich/Android 4.0.1
(2011 Oct 19/API-14) |
- Facial recognition (Face Unlock)
- UI use Hardware acceleration
- Better voice recognition (dictating/Voice typing)
- Web browser, allows up to 16 tabs
- Updated launcher (customizable)
- Android Beam app to exchange data through NFC
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Ice Cream Sandwich/Android 4.0
(2011 Oct 18/API-14) |
- New lock screen actions
- Improved text input and spell-checking
- Control over network data
- Email app supports EAS v14
- WI-FI direct
- BlueTooth Health Device Profile
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- Low-level streaming multimedia (Khronos OpenMAX AL
- Grid Layout
- Spell checking service
- Address Space Layout Randomization
- VPN client API
- Remote Device camera enable/disable
- ZSL exposure, continuous focus, and image zoom
- Flags to help control system ui elements like system bar from
apps
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Honeycomb/Android 3.2.6
(2012 Feb 15/API-13) |
Minor fixes |
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Honeycomb/Android 3.2.4
(2011 Dec 15/API-13) |
Added “Pay as you go” for tablets |
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Honeycomb/Android 3.2.2
(2011 Sep 30/API-13) |
Minor fixes |
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Honeycomb/Android 3.2.2
(2011 Sep 20/API-13) |
- Android Market updates including easier automatic updates
- Google Books updates
- Wi-Fi improvements
- Chinese handwriting prediction improved
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Honeycomb/Android 3.2
(2011 Jul 15/API-13) |
- Optimizations for a wider range of tablets
- Compatibility display mode (zoom for fixed-sized apps)
- Media sync from SD card
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- Extended API for managing screens support
- New resource qualifiers for screens support
- New manifest attributes for screen-size compatibility
- Screen compatibility mode which allows for phone apps to appear
as if they were still on a phone
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Honeycomb/Android 3.1
(2011 May 10/API-12) |
- UI improvements
- Open Accessory API
- USB host API
- Mice, joysticks, gamepads… support
- Resizable Home screen widgets
- MTP
notifications
- RTP API
for audio
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Honeycomb/Android 3.0
(2011 Feb 22/API-11) |
- Multi core support
- Better tablet support
- Updated 3D UI
- customizable homescreens
- recent applications viewing
- redone keyboard layout
- Media/Picture transport protocol
- Google Talk video chat
- Google eBooks
- “Private browsing”
- System-wide Clipboard
- HTTP Live streaming
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- contextual action bar
- Fragments first introduced(support library now supports it as
well)
- Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
- Renderscript 3D graphics engine
- Pluggable DRM framework
- device administration
- High performance Animation Framework
- RTP streaming API
- Forced rendering of layers
- High performance WIFI lock
- Vew network traffic stats
- ADTS AAC and FLAC audio
- LRU cache
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Gingerbread/Android 2.3.7
(2011 Sep 21/API-10) |
- Google Wallet support for the Nexus S 4G
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Gingerbread/Android 2.3.6
(2011 Sep 2/API-10) |
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Gingerbread/Android 2.3.5
(2011 Jul 25/API-10) |
- Improved network performance for the Nexus S 4G
- Fixed Bluetooth issues on the Samsung Galaxy S
- Gmail app. improvements
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Gingerbread/Android 2.3.4
(2011 May 10/API-10) |
- Voice or video chat using Google Talk
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Gingerbread/Android 2.3.3
(2011 Feb 9/API-10) |
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- NFC API
improvements (peer to peer communication…)
- added unsecure bluetooth sockets
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Gingerbread/Android 2.3
(2010 Dec 6/API-9) |
- Updated UI
- Improved keyboard ease of use
- Improved copy/paste
- Improved power management
- Social networking features
- Near Field Communication support
- Native VoIP/SIP support
- Video call support
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- performance – concurrent garbage collection, faster event
distribution, updated video drivers
- NDK – Native Asset Manager, Native Activities + event handling,
khronos api
- audio effects api
- VP8, WebM, AAC, AMR wideband
- Multiple camera sensor support
- strictmode debugging
- media framework replaces OpenCore
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Froyo/Android 2.3
(2010 May 20/API-8) |
- Speed improvements
- JIT implementation
- USB Tethering
- Applications installation to the expandable memory
- Upload file support in the browser
- Animated GIFs
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Eclair/Android 2.3
(2010 Jan 12/API-7) |
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