Aside from the initial Android 1.0 and 1.1 releases, Android 1.5 Cupcake is the first major new iteration of Android, first upgrade if you will. Google continued opening up Google Now to third-party developers and thankfully added “silent mode” back in for notifications. Motorola had to get permission and pay some money to Lucasfilm to use the name for its phone.

As a result, Android Q is officially known just as Android 10. However, it’s actually been just over a decade since the first official Android phone hit store shelves.

Use our mobile phones finder now! It was an experiment in marketing that Google didn’t rekindle until the launch of Oreo (we’ll get to that). Even though it was the first official release, Android 1.0 brought a number of features that we've come to rely on, including a web browser, camera support, Gmail synchronisation with the Gmail app, YouTube video player, Google Maps, Contacts and Calendar synchronisation as well. Google also put some thought into a smarter keyboard that could select contact names as suggestions. Personalisation was a key component, with the likes of live wallpapers and support for multiple desktops introduced. All rights reserved. After a shaky start, where funding became an issue, Android, Inc was acquired by Google on August 17 2005, and a number of Android, Inc. employees stayed on. On July 9 2012, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was released, and the main aim of the update was to improve the user interface in both performance and features. In August, Google confirmed the cookie-inspired public name for Android 8.0. Tablets, smartphones and phones with Android 1.5 Cupcake. Like all of us, Android went through some awkward years and learned some hard lessons before becoming the OS it is today. Cupcake added quite a few new features and improvements compared to the first two public versions. For developers, the Android 1.5 platform was available as a downloadable component for the …

Android 1.5 Cupcake brought in widget support, animated transitions when skipping through your desktops, the ability to automatically rotate the screen when you turn your phone and a stock boot animation. Apps were more powerful, multitasking was now front and center, and you could start to really see the computer-class power that were being packed inside smartphones. It went on sale in the US in October of that year. The stable Android 11 update is finally here for select devices. Android Auto: Google's head unit for cars explained, Everything you need to know about Android Oreo, How to download the Android Pie right now, HDMI 2.1 isn’t necessary for PS5, says Sony product manager, No, the $2,500 Nvidia RTX Titan cannot run Crysis Remastered at 8K, Minecraft is making a huge move that will change the game forever, New PS5 images offer the best look yet at the console’s size, New iPhone 12 release date, price, specs, leaks and what you need to know, Sony's flagship 4K OLED TV is now available – and it's way cheaper than we thought, This palm-sized PC from China could represent the future of computing, iPadOS 14: the good, the bad and loads of missing features, Android 5.0 Lollipop is currently still being rolled out to devices, so if you're waiting to upgrade check out our regularly updated article on. Android 1.6 Donut was released on September 15, 2009. Android had some alphas and betas for T-Mobile’s G1 before this release, but cupcake was its first confectionary-named operating system. Swiping up from it brings up Overview, with your most recently used apps, a search bar, and five app suggestions on the bottom.

It remains to be seen if Fuchsia will ever hit the mainstream or be resigned to the Google Graveyard alongside so many other projects.