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The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of its first beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released on September 23, 2008. The operating system has been developed by Google on a yearly schedule since at least 2011. [1]
The latest Android 14 is the most popular Android version on smartphones and on tablets. As of 2024, Android 14 is most popular single Android version on smartphones at 26%, [438] followed by Android 13, 12, down to Pie 9.0 in that order. Android is more used than iOS is virtually all countries, with few exceptions such as iOS has a 56% share ...
The Dynamic System Update allows Android Q devices to temporarily install a Generic System Image (GSI) to try a newer version of Android on top of their current Android version. Once users decide to end testing the chosen GSI image, they can simply reboot their device and boot back into their normal device's Android version. [18]
Since version 10.2.1, Android application packages can be installed directly, whereas on previous versions Android applications could only be installed through BlackBerry World or by sideloading, which required packaging such applications into a native package format (BAR). [25]
Android Nougat (codenamed Android N during development) is the seventh major version and 14th original version of the Android operating system.First released as an alpha test version on March 9, 2016, it was officially released on August 22, 2016, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update.
Android 14 blocks the installation of apps that target versions of Android below Marshmallow (6.0). The change is intended to curb the spread of malware, which intentionally targets old versions of Android to bypass security restrictions introduced in newer versions. An Android Debug Bridge (ADB) install flag has been added to bypass the ...
Android 13 (internally codenamed Tiramisu) [4] [5] [6] was announced in an Android blog posted on February 10, 2022, [7] and the first Developer Preview was immediately released for the Google Pixel series (from Pixel 4 to Pixel 6, dropping support for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3a). It was released 4 months or so after the stable version of Android 12.
Android Oreo (codenamed Android O during development) is the eighth major release and the 15th version of the Android mobile operating system.. It was initially unveiled as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2017 and later made available to the public, on August 21, 2017.