History Of Android OS Version Continued .

Android 4.0–4.0.2 Ice Cream Sandwich 

The SDK for Android 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich), in light of Linux bit 3.0.1, was openly discharged on 2011 October 19. Google's Gabe Cohen expressed that Android 4.0 was "hypothetically perfect" with any Android 2.3.x gadget underway at that time.The source code for Android 4.0 got to be accessible on November 14, 2011. Frozen yogurt Sandwich was the last form to formally bolster Adobe Systems' Flash player. The overhaul presented various new elements: 

• Real refinements to the "Holo" interface with new Roboto textual style crew 
• Delicate catches from Android 3.x are presently accessible for use on telephones 
• Division of gadgets in another tab, recorded in a comparable way to applications 
• Less demanding to-make envelopes, with a move and customize style 
• Enhanced visual phone message with the capacity to accelerate or back off voice message messages 
• Squeeze to-zoom usefulness in the schedule 
• Incorporated screenshot catch (achieved by holding down the Power and Volume-Down catches) 
• Enhanced blunder redress on the console 
• Capacity to get to applications specifically from lock screen 
• Enhanced duplicate and glue usefulness 
• Better voice incorporation and nonstop, ongoing discourse to content correspondence 
• Face Unlock, an element that permits clients to open handsets utilizing facial acknowledgment programming 
• Programmed matching up of program with clients' Chrome bookmarks 
• Information Usage segment in settings that lets clients set notices when they approach a specific utilization confine, and handicap information use when the cutoff is surpassed 
• Capacity to close down applications from the late applications list with a swipe. 
• Enhanced camera application with zero shade slack, time slip settings, display mode, and the capacity to zoom while recording 
• Worked in photograph manager 
• New display design, sorted out by area and individual 
• Invigorated "Individuals" application with interpersonal organization joining, announcements and hello res pictures 
• Android Beam, a close field correspondence highlight permitting the quick short-run trade of web bookmarks, contact information, bearings, YouTube recordings and other information 
• Support for the WebP picture position 
• Equipment increasing speed of the UI 
• Wi-Fi Direct 
• 1080p video recording for stock Android gadgets 
• Android VPN Framework (AVF), and TUN (yet not TAP) bit module. Preceding 4.0, VPN programming required established Android. 

Android 4.0.3–4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich 

4.0.3 
2011 December 16 

• Various bugfixes and enhancements 
• Changes to representation, databases, spell-checking and Bluetooth usefulness 
• New APIs for engineers, including a social stream API in the Contacts supplier 
• Date-book supplier upgrades 
• New camera applications upgrading video adjustment and QVGA determination 
• Availability refinements, for example, enhanced substance access for screen perusers 

4.0.4 
29 March 2012 

• Soundness enhancements 
• Better camera execution 
• Smoother screen turn 
• Enhanced telephone number acknowledgment

Android 4.1–4.1.2 Jelly Bean 

         Google reported Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) at the Google I/O meeting on June 27, 2012. Taking into account Linux bit 3.0.31, Jelly Bean was an incremental redesign with the essential point of enhancing the usefulness and execution of the client interface. The execution change included "Undertaking Butter", which utilizes touch expectation, triple buffering, developed vsync timing and an altered edge rate of 60 fps to make a liquid and "rich smooth" UI. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was discharged to the Android Open Source Project on July 9, 2012, and the Nexus 7 tablet, the principal gadget to run Jelly Bean, was discharged on July 13, 2012. 

4.1 

July 9, 2012 

• Smoother client interface: 
• Vsync timing over all drawing and activity done by the Android structure, including application rendering, touch occasions, screen organization and presentation invigorate 
• Triple buffering in the design pipeline 
• CPU information help 
• Synchronizing touch to vsync timing 
• Upgraded openness 
• Bi-directional content and other dialect support 
• Client installable console maps 
• Expandable warnings 
• Capacity to kill warnings on an application-particular premise 
• Alternate ways and gadgets can naturally be re-orchestrated or re-sized to permit new things to fit on home screens 
• Bluetooth information exchange for Android Beam 
• Tablets with littler screens now utilize an extended adaptation of the interface format and home screen utilized by telephones. 
• Enhanced camera application 
• Multichannel sound 
• The Fraunhofer FDK AAC codec gets to be standard in Android, including AAC 5.1 channel encoding/deciphering 
• USB sound (for outside sound DACs)[95] 
• Sound fastening (otherwise called gapless playback) 
• Capacity for different launchers to include gadgets from the application drawer without requiring root access 

4.1.2 

October 9, 2012 

• Lock/home screen pivot support for the Nexus 7 
• One-finger motions to grow/breakdown notifica
• Bugfixes and execution improvements

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean 

        Google discharged Jelly Bean 4.3 under the motto "A much sweeter Jelly Bean" on July 24, 2013, amid an occasion in San Francisco called "Breakfast with Sundar Pichai". Most Nexus gadgets got the redesign inside of a week, in spite of the fact that the second-era Nexus 7 tablet was the primary gadget to formally send with it.A minor bugfix overhaul was discharged on August 22, 2013. 

• Bluetooth low vitality support 
• Bluetooth Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.3 backing 
• OpenGL ES 3.0 backing, taking into account enhanced diversion design 
• Confined access mode for new client profiles 
• Filesystem compose execution change by running fstrim order while gadget is unmoving 
• Dial cushion auto-complete in the Phone application 
• Volume for approaching calls (ringtone) and notice cautions is no more customizable independently 
• Enhancements to Photo Sphere 
• Revamped camera UI, beforehand presented on Google Play version telephones 
• Expansion of "Application Ops", a fine-grained application consents control framework (covered up of course) 
• 4K determination support 
• Various security redesigns, execution upgrades, and bugfixes 
• Framework level backing for geofencing and Wi-Fi filtering APIs 
• Foundation Wi-Fi area still runs notwithstanding when Wi-Fi is killed 
• Engineer logging and breaking down improvements 
• Included backing for five more dialects 
• Changed computerized rights administration (DRM) APIs 
• Right-to-left (RTL) dialects now bolstered 
• Check in the status bar vanishes if clock is chosen as lockscreen gadget 
• Local emoji support 

Android 4.4 KitKat 

      Google declared Android 4.4 KitKat on September 3, 2013. Albeit at first under the "Key Lime Pie" ("KLP") codename, the name was changed in light of the fact that "not very many individuals really know the essence of a key lime pie." Some innovation bloggers additionally expected the "Key Lime Pie" discharge to be Android 5. KitKat appeared on Google's Nexus 5 on October 31, 2013, and was advanced to keep running on a more prominent scope of gadgets than prior Android adaptations, having 512 MB of RAM as a suggested least; those changes were known as "Task Svelte" inside at Google. The required least measure of RAM accessible to Android is 340 MB, and all gadgets with under 512 MB of RAM must report themselves as "low RAM" gadgets. 

• Invigorated interface with white components rather than blue 
• Clock no more shows striking hours; all digits are dainty. The H, M, and S markings for the stopwatch and clock have been evacuated, leaving quite recently the numbers. 
• Capacity for applications to trigger translucency in the route and status bars 
• Capacity for applications to utilize "immersive mode" to keep the route and status bars covered up while keeping up client communication 
• Activity flood menu catches are constantly obvious, even on gadgets with a "Menu" key, which was formally belittled by Android 4.0. 
• Limitation for applications while getting to outside capacity, aside from their own particular indexes 
• Advancements for execution on gadgets with lower determinations, including zRAM backing and "low RAM" gadget API 
• Remote printing capacity 
• NFC host card copying, empowering a gadget to supplant brilliant cards 
• WebViews now taking into account Chromium motor (element equality with Chrome for Android 30) 
• Extended usefulness for warning audience administrations 
• Open API for creating and overseeing content informing customers 
• Capacity Access Framework, an API permitting applications to recover records in a steady way. As a component of the structure, another framework record picker permits clients to get to documents from different sources (counting those uncovered by applications, for example, online capacity administrations). 
• New system for UI moves 
• Sensor clustering, step identifier and counter APIs 
• Settings application now makes it conceivable to choose default content informing and home (launcher) application 
• Sound burrowing, sound observing and commotion enhancer 
• Worked in screen recording highlight (essentially for designers, as use of ADB is required) 
• Local infrared blaster API 
• Confirmed boot 
• Authorizing SE Linux 
• Extended openness APIs and framework level shut inscribing settings 
• Android Runtime (ART) presented as another exploratory application runtime environment, not empowered naturally, as a swap for the Dalvik virtual machine 
• Bluetooth Message Access Profile (MAP) support 
• Incapacitated access to battery insights by outsider applications 
• Settings application no more uses a multi-sheet format on gadgets with bigger screens 
• Wi-Fi and portable information action (TX/RX) pointers are moved to snappy settings 
• Handicaps content wrapping in the WebView program part

Android 5.0 Lollipop 

      Android 5.0 "Candy" was uncovered under the codename "Android L" on June 25, 2014, amid Google I/O. It got to be accessible as official over-the-air (OTA) reports on November 12, 2014, for select gadgets that run disseminations of Android adjusted by Google, including Nexus and Google Play version gadgets. Its source code was made accessible on November 3, 2014. 

Candy includes an updated client interface worked around a responsive outline dialect alluded to as "material configuration". Different changes incorporate enhancements to the warnings, which can be gotten to from the lockscreen and showed inside of utilizations as top-of-the-screen flags. Moreover, Google rolled out interior improvements to the stage, with the Android Runtime (ART) authoritatively swapping Dalvik for enhanced application execution, and with changes proposed to enhance and enhance battery utilization, referred to inside as Project Volta. 

• Android Runtime (ART) with early (AOT) gathering and enhanced trash accumulation (GC), supplanting Dalvik that consolidates bytecode understanding with follow based without a moment to spare (JIT) assemblage 
• Support for 64-bit CPUs 
• OpenGL ES 3.1 and Android Extension Pack (AEP) on bolstered GPU arrangements 
• Late exercises screen with errands rather than applications, up to a designed most extreme of assignments per application 
• Vector drawables, which scale without losing definition 
• Support for print sneak peaks 
• Material outline, bringing a restyled client interface 
• Revived lock screen, no more supporting gadgets 
• Invigorated warning plate and fast settings pull-down 
• Venture Volta, for battery life upgrades 
• Quests can be performed inside of the framework settings for snappier access to specific settings 
• Lock screen gives easy routes to application and warning settings 
• Visitor logins and numerous client records are accessible on more gadgets, for example, telephones. 
• Sound data and yield through USB gadgets 
• Outsider applications recover the capacity to peruse and alter information found anyplace on outer stockpiling, for example, on SD cards. 
• Sticking of an application's screen for limited client action. 
• As of late utilized applications are recalled even in the wake of restarting the gadget. 
• WebViews get redesigns autonomously through Google Play for security reasons, rather than depending on framework wide seller overhauls 
• Expansion of 15 new dialects: Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Galician, Icelandic, Kannada, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu[ 
• Tap and Go permits clients to rapidly move to another Android gadget, utilizing NFC and Bluetooth to exchange Google Account points of interest, arrangement settings, client information and introduced applications 
• An electric lamp style application is incorporated, chipping away at upheld gadgets with a camera streak. 
• Client adjustable needs for application warnings. 
• Shrewd lock highlight 
• Redesigned emoji 
• Enhanced openness support (e.g. switch access support) 
• Square based over-the-air (OTA) overhauls for new gadgets

Android 6.0 Marshmallow 

     It was revealed under the codename "Android M" amid Google I/O on May 28, 2015, for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 telephones, Nexus 9 tablet, and Nexus Player set-top box, under the construct number MPZ44Q. The third engineer sneak peak (MPA44G) was discharged on August 17, 2015 for the Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player gadgets, and was overhauled to MPA44I that conveyed fixes identified with Android for Work profiles. 

• Presently on Tap highlight 
• Rest mode 
• Application Standby component 
• In order available vertical application drawer 
• Application seek bar and top choices 
• Local unique finger impression peruser support 
• Direct Share highlight for target-particular sharing between apps.
• renew word  "Need" mode to "Don't Disturb" mode 
• Application Linking for speedier natural opening of connections with relating applications 
• Bigger Application organizers with numerous pages 
• Post-introduce/run-time consent demands 
• USB Type-C support 
• Demo Mode highlight for screenshot-catch utilization 
• Programmed full information reinforcement and restore for applications 
• 4K Display mode for applications 
• Adoptable External stockpiling to carry on like Internal Storage 
• MIDI backing for musical instruments 
• Exploratory Multi Window highlight 
• Fractional application consents reintroduced