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This is a list of Android distributions, Android-based operating systems (OS) commonly referred to as Custom ROMs or Android ROMs, forked from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without Google Play Services included officially in some or all markets, yet maintained independent coverage in notable Android-related sources.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was first unveiled at the Google I/O developer conference on June 27, 2012, with a focus on "delightful" improvements to the platform's user interface, along with improvements to Google's search experience on the platform (such as Knowledge Graph integration, and the then-new digital assistant Google Now), the unveiling of the Asus-produced Nexus 7 tablet, and the ...
Google was expected to launch the Nexus 4 at a press event in New York City.However, the event was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy, and the Nexus 4 (along with Android 4.2, the Nexus 10 tablet, and the Nexus 7 with cellular network support) was unveiled by Google via a press release on October 29, 2012, for a release on November 13, 2012.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich [4] Asus PadFone Infinity Asus 2013/04 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean [5] Asus PadFone Infinity 2 Asus 2013/10 Android 4.2 Jelly Bean [6] Asus PadFone mini Asus 2013/12 Android 4.3 Jelly Bean [7] Asus PadFone E Asus 2014/01 Android 4.3 Jelly Bean [8] Asus PadFone Infinity Lite Asus 2014/02 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean [9]
Android 4.4W KitKat, with wearable extensions (API 20) Version Release date Features 4.4W [179] June 25, 2014 [180] Initial release of the Android Wear platform for smartwatches: the same as Android 4.4 "KitKat", but with wearable extensions added. 4.4W.1 September 6, 2014 [181] UI updates for Google Maps navigation and alarms. 4.4W.2 October ...
Google maintains a public code repository that contains their experimental work to re-base Android off the latest stable Linux versions. [205] [206] Android is a Linux distribution according to the Linux Foundation, [207] Google's open-source chief Chris DiBona, [208] and several journalists.
A Dalvik-powered phone. The relative merits of stack machines versus register-based approaches are a subject of ongoing debate. [16]Generally, stack-based machines must use instructions to load data on the stack and manipulate that data, and, thus, require more instructions than register machines to implement the same high-level code, but the instructions in a register machine must encode the ...
The S4's 5-inch (130 mm) Super AMOLED display with 1080×1920 pixels (1080p Full HD [24]) is larger than the 4.8-inch (120 mm) 720×1280 display of its predecessor, and also features a brand new "Diamond" PenTile RGBG matrix subpixel arrangement which has a better subpixel fill-rate for any given resolution than the traditional linear RGBG ...