Android version 9.0: Pie The newest addition to our Android versions list is the freshly baked  Android Pie . Android 9 entered the wor...

Android version 8.0 and 8.1: Oreo Android Oreo   added a variety of niceties to the platform, including a native picture-in-picture mode...

Android versions 7.0 and 7.1: Nougat Google's 2016  Android Nougat  releases provided Android with a native split-screen mode, a ...

Android version 6.0: Marshmallow In the grand scheme of things, 2015's  Marshmallow  was a fairly minor Android release — one that ...

4.4 "KitKat" Google released Android 4.4 KitKat in October 2013, coinciding with the launch of the  Nexus 5 smartphone . KitK...

4.3 "Jelly Bean" Though we had been waiting for Android 5 for some time, Google threw us a curveball by once again stickin...

4.2 "Jelly Bean" While Android 4.1 Jelly Bean introduced a new confectionary-based name and significant improvements ove...

4.1 "Jelly Bean" Announced at 2012's Google I/O conference, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is arguably a much bigger deal than it...

4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" A nd that leads us to our current state of affairs with the recent release of Android 4.0 on the  G...

3.x "Honeycomb"   Honeycomb was, to say the least, an oddity — a divergence in Google's hard-charging path toward smartp...

2.3 "Gingerbread" About a half year after the launch of Froyo on the Nexus One, Google came back for another round of the Nexu...

Android L Lollipop? Licorice? Lemonhead? While the new Android's candy-derived name remains a mystery, we now know a lot more about...

2.2 "Froyo" Android 2.2 was released in mid-2010, and the advantage of the Nexus program was starting to become clear: the Nex...

2.0 / 2.1 "Eclair" n early November of 2009 — about a year after the G1's premiere — Android 2.0 launched right on Don...