Android 4.4.4 |
KitKat |
Fix Heartbleed / OpenSSL vulnerability |
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2014 Jun 23 |
13.6 % (4.4 - 4.4.4) |
19 |
Android 4.4.3 |
KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Enable Sprint Spark band 26 and band 41
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2014 Apr 14 |
13.6 % (4.4 - 4.4.4) |
19 |
Android 4.4.2 |
KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Security enhancements
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2013 Dec 9 |
13.6 % (4.4 - 4.4.4) |
19 |
Android 4.4.1 |
KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Enhance the camera on the Nexus 5
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2013 Dec 5 |
13.6 % (4.4 - 4.4.4) |
19 |
Android 4.4 |
KitKat |
- 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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2013 Oct 31 |
13.6 % (4.4 - 4.4.4) |
19 |
Android 4.3 |
Jelly Bean |
- 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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2013 Jul 24 |
10.3 % (4.3) |
18 |
Android 4.2.2 |
Jelly Bean |
- 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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2013 Feb 11 |
19.1 % (4.2 - 4.2.2) |
17 |
Android 4.2.1 |
Jelly Bean |
- Fix missing december bug in the People app
- Add support for Bluetooth gamepads and joysticks HID devices
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2012 Nov 27 |
19.1 % (4.2 - 4.2.2) |
17 |
Android 4.2 |
Jelly Bean |
- 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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2012 Nov 13 |
19.1 % (4.2 - 4.2.2) |
17 |
Android 4.1.2 |
Jelly Bean |
- Enable Home screen rotation
- Fix bugs and enhance performances
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2012 Oct 9 |
29 % (4.1 - 4.1.2) |
16 |
Android 4.1.1 |
Jelly Bean |
- Fix a bug on screen orientation
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2012 Jul 23 |
29 % (4.1 - 4.1.2) |
16 |
Android 4.1 |
Jelly Bean |
- 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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2012 Jul 9 |
29 % (4.1 - 4.1.2) |
16 |
Android 4.0.4 |
Ice Cream Sandwich |
- stability improvements
- better camera performance
- smoother screen rotation
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2012 Mar 28 |
12.3 % (4.0.3 - 4.0.4) |
15 |
Android 4.0.3 |
Ice Cream Sandwich |
- 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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2011 Dec 16 |
12.3 % (4.0.3 - 4.0.4) |
15 |
Android 4.0.2 |
Ice Cream Sandwich |
Minor fixes |
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2011 Nov 28 |
0 % |
14 |
Android 4.0 |
Ice Cream Sandwich |
- 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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0 % |
14 |
Android 4.0.1 |
Ice Cream Sandwich |
- 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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2011 Oct 19 |
0 % |
14 |
Android 3.2.6 |
Honeycomb |
Minor fixes |
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2012 Feb 15 |
0 % |
13 |
Android 3.2.4 |
Honeycomb |
Added "Pay as you go" for tablets |
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2011 Dec 15 |
0 % |
13 |
Android 3.2.2 |
Honeycomb |
Minor fixes |
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2011 Sep 30 |
0 % |
13 |
Android 3.2.1 |
Honeycomb |
- Android Market updates including easier automatic updates
- Google Books updates
- Wi-Fi improvements
- Chinese handwriting prediction improved
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2011 Sep 20 |
0 % |
13 |
Android 3.2 |
Honeycomb |
- 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
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- 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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2011 Jul 15 |
0 % |
13 |
Android 3.1 |
Honeycomb |
- 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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2011 May 10 |
0 % |
12 |
Android 3.0 |
Honeycomb |
- Multi core support
- Better tablet support
- Updated 3D UI
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- 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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2011 Feb 22 |
0 % |
11 |
Android 2.3.4 |
Gingerbread |
- Voice or video chat using Google Talk
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2011 May 10 |
14.9 % (2.3.3 - 2.3.7) |
10 |
Android 2.3.7 |
Gingerbread |
- Google Wallet support for the Nexus S 4G
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14.9 % (2.3.3 - 2.3.7) |
10 |
Android 2.3.6 |
Gingerbread |
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14.9 % (2.3.3 - 2.3.7) |
10 |
Android 2.3.5 |
Gingerbread |
- Improved network performance for the Nexus S 4G
- Fixed Bluetooth issues on the Samsung Galaxy S
- Gmail app. improvements
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2011 Jul 25 |
14.9 % (2.3.3 - 2.3.7) |
10 |
Android 2.3.3 |
Gingerbread |
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- NFC API improvements (peer to peer communication...)
- added unsecure bluetooth sockets
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2011 Feb 9 |
14.9 % (2.3.3 - 2.3.7) |
10 |
Android 2.3 |
Gingerbread |
- 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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2010 Dec 6 |
0 % (2.3 - 2.3.2) |
9 |
Android 2.2 |
Froyo |
- Speed improvements
- JIT implementation
- USB Tethering
- Applications installation to the expandable memory
- Upload file support in the browser
- Animated GIFs
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2010 May 20 |
0.8 % (2.2) |
8 |
Android 2.1 |
Eclair |
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2010 Jan 12 |
0 % |
7 |
Android 2.0.1 |
Eclair |
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2009 Dec 3 |
0 % |
6 |
Android 2.0 |
Eclair |
- HTML
- Digital zoom
- Microsoft Exchange support
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Live Wallpapers
- Updated UI
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2009 Oct 26 |
0 % |
5 |
Android 1.6 |
Donut |
- Gesture framework
- Turn-by-turn navigation
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2009 Sep 15 |
0 % |
4 |
Android 1.5 |
Cupcake |
- Bluetooth A2DP, AVRCP support
- Soft-keyboard with text-prediction
- Record/watch videos
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2009 Apr 30 |
0 % |
3 |
Android 1.1 |
Banana bread |
- "Show" & "Hide" numeric keyboard, in caller application
- Ability to save MMS attachments
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2009 Feb 9 |
0 % |
2 |
Android 1.0 |
Apple pie |
- Download and updates via Android Market
- Web Browser
- Camera support
- Gmail, Contacts and Google Agenda synchronization
- Google Maps
- YouTube application
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2008 Sep 23 |
0 % |
1 |
Android 0.9 |
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2008 Aug 18 |
0 % |
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