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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]
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.
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]
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 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.
The fourth beta version was released on July 11. [10] Android 14 had 1 year, 1 month, 2 weeks and 5 days between Android 13's August 15, 2022 release, surpassing the Android 9–10 duration of 1 year and 4 weeks. The beta versions are available for Pixel devices that are guaranteed Android version updates, the Pixel 4a (5G) or newer devices.
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 ...
A device-specific Lollipop 5.0.2 (LRX22G) version was released for the first-generation Nexus 7 on December 19, 2014. [36] Android 5.1, an updated version of Lollipop, was unveiled in February 2015 as part of the Indonesian launch of Android One, and is preloaded on Android One devices sold in Indonesia and the Philippines. Google officially ...