Describing about versions of android and their features

1. ANDROID TECHNOLOGY
PRESENTED BY
E.ESSA
V.GULSHAN
Department of ECE
KRCT

2. ANDROID
Android was founded in Palo Alto,
California in October 2003 by
Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick
Sears and Chris White who work
at “ Google” to develop.

3. ORIGIN OF ANDROID
 It was Initially developed by Android, Inc., which
Google backed financially and later bought in 2005 for
25 million $.
 It is Linux based operating system for mobile devices
 It is based on JAVA Language

4. VERSIONS OF ANDROID
 Android 1.0
 Android 1.1
 Android 1.5 cupcake
 Android 1.6 donut
 Android 2.0 Éclair (2.0-2.1)
 Android 2.2 Froyo (2.2-2.2.3)
 Android 2.3 Gingerbread (2.3-2.3.7)
 Android 3.0 Honeycomb (3.0-3.2.6)
 Android 4.0 Icecream sandwich (4.0-4.0.4)

5. VERSIONS OF ANDROID
 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (4.1-4.3.1)
 Android 4.4 Kitkat (4.4-4.4.4)
 Android 5.0 Lollipop (5.0-5.1.1)
 Android 6.0 Marshmallow (6.0-6.0.1)
 Android 7.0 Nougat

6. VERSION 1.0 &1.1
 Version 1.0 Released on 23 sep, 2008
 Version 1.1 Released on 9 Feb, 2009
 Instant messaging and MMS
 Access to web email server
 Ability to save attachments in messages

7. VERSION 1.5 CUPCAKE
 Released on 27 April,2009
 Copy and paste features in web browser
 Auto rotation option
 Ability to upload videos to You tube
 Video recording and playback in MPEG-4 and 3GP
formats

8. VERSION 1.6 DONUT
 Released on 15 Sep,2009
 Speed improvements
 Ability to select multiple deletion
 Faster camera access
 Ability to include contents in search results

9. VERSION 2.0 ECLAIR
 Released on 26 Oct,2009
 Bluetooth 2.1 support
 Addition of live wallpapers
 Improved typing speed on virtual keyboard
 Improved features in flash support, color effect

10. VERSION 2.2 FROYO
 Released on 20 May,2010
 Adobe flash support
 Support for numeric and alphanumeric passwords
• Supports for installing applications to the expandable
memory

11. VERSION 2.3 GINGERBREAD
 Released on 6 Dec,2010
 Front-facing camera
 Improved power management
 Faster voice input mode
 Native support for more sensors

12. VERSION 3.0 HONEYCOMB
 Released on 22 Feb,2011
 Support for multi-core processor
 Resizable home screen widgets
 High performance Wi-Fi lock
 Support for joysticks and gamepads

13. VERSION 4.0 ICE CREAM SANDWICH
 Released on 8 oct,2011
 Data usage sections in settings
 Integrated screenshot capture
 Built in photo editor
 Improved phone number recognition

14. VERSION 4.1 JELLYBEAN
 Released on 9 July,2012
 Ability to turn off notifications
 Lock/home screen rotations
 Group messaging
 Clock in the status bar disappears if clock is selected as
lock screen widget

15. VERSION 4.4 KITKAT
 Released on 1 Oct,2013
 GPS support
 Offline music playback
 Camera application now loads Google+ photos instead
of gallery swiping away from the camera view

16. VERSION 5.0 LOLLIPOP
 Released on 12 Nov,2014
 Smart lock feature
 Addition of 15 new languages
 Improved battery life
 Improve camera flash

17. VERSION 6.0 MARSHMALLOW
 Released on 5 Oct,2015
 Introduction of Doze mode
 Google “Now on Tap” feature
 184 new emojis , changes to 48 existing emojis and
other emoji related tweaks

18. VERSION 7.0 NOUGAT
 Released on 22 Aug,2016
 Multi window support
 “Clear all” button in overview button
 New data server mode
 Improved Doze functionality , which aims to prolong
battery life

19. ADVANTAGES
 Supports all Google services
 With Google Chrome you can open many window at
once
 A more mature platform
 Ability for anyone to customize the Google Android
platform

20. DISADVANTAGES
 Uses more amount of battery
 Very unstable and often hang or crash
 Small memory size
 Mozilla won’t support Java