An operating system that was created especially for touch screen phones, so-called new generation or smart phones, common tablets and those that work with telephone lines; Entering into this range smart watches, televisions and some accessories for new cars, this company named Android Inc, was backed by Google, which in 2005 Google itself took over buying for several million dollars, anticipating that this new platform in the advanced technology of standards in mobile devices was a good business in the future.
From there, there have been several versions of android that have been released, which are:
Android Cupcake: the operating system that since 2009 called cupcake, came with the names of sweets or desserts that Google places on its systems for Android, this brings a wide range of deployment on its platform where users and developers find from applications old to newer features, this system provides a keyboard on the home screen itself, along with a Bluetooth interface expanding the management of applications along with those that google continues to provide over time.
Android Donut: donuts, donuts or donuts, are the names given to this new Google operating system, where it was released with open source code in 2009, which was created for so-called smartphones or new generation phones, This had a good support in CDMA, running on cell phones with different screens and a variety of sizes, innovating with search and voice messaging, generating an indication of the cell phone's battery life.
Android Froyo: version of the operating system called frozen yogurt, of Android that Google developed where improvements in the USB and WI-Fi ports were released, giving better support in its uses, increasing speed, messaging and storing information in the cloud Android through google, a version that could be run from google play, having more memory, better performance, speed, Bluetooth functionality, image galleries, zoom were one of many improvements since it came out in 2010, its version 2.2 and 2.2.3 were its sequels.
Android Gingerbread: following its way of naming its operating systems in names of desserts, the gingerbread, Gingerbread, that Google brought to the market together with the Nexus S phone in 2010, comes to the market, maintaining the characteristics of its version more old that goes from its good visual browser of pages, the synchronized calendar of google and the very famous Google Maps among others, it comes with a new image resolution of extra large screens, improving the copy and paste on selected texts, new sound effects improving its equalizer, headphone and bass, giving good quality to audio, graphics and games.
Android HoneyComb: honeycomb, Google has strived for creativity in the names of its new releases of its operating systems, this being open source, characterized by having a variety of languages and created only to be used on tablets, such as the one they used to its launch on the Motorola Xoom tablets, this application has to its credit two more updates apart from its original Android 3.0, it has Android 3.1 and Android 3.2.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich: Sandwich ice cream is its name in Spanish translation, it is an operating system that was released in 2011, which unlike its past versions was created so that it can be used both on mobile devices and on your tablets advanced, created by Google to facilitate and encompass a broader and more competitive market for accessibility to information and the management of new ranges of technology, trying to create a unified platform between smart devices.
Android Jelly Bean: name that means gummies, an operating system which has left the characteristics of past versions such as Google Maps and more, appears in this new version with Bluetooth with low power consumption and expanding the variety of languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, African, Hindu, Swahili, Zulu among others; using the WI-FI interface but with data security on personal use profiles, with restricted access. It has a clean range in writing with different sizes, with operation of the speed dial key or the Dial Pad call, a personal assistant on the saved information and the ability to watch TV content over the internet, it is very useful for app developers improving the encodings on the videos.Android KitKat: it is an open source 4.4 interface where with an agreement with the Nestlé company, so that it could bear the name of one of its star products such as KitKat, which is a cookie covered in milk chocolate, being a system operating for Android mobiles, improving the design, the functionality of the system, the performance in only 512 MB of RAM without altering the consumption of the battery, it is a system that has been improved in new versions that are 4.4.1, 4.4. 2, 4.4.3 and 4.4.4.
Android Lollipop: lollipop, lollipop, lollipop, names in Spanish with which said operating system is identified, it is used in Android mobiles, in order to include a new interface called Material Design, running on any Google platform giving consistency between the different applications and platforms created, giving an improvement to notifications accessing from the lock screen, another improvement is optimizing the use and consumption of the battery giving a greater performance of 90% of daily use.
Android Marshmallow: Known as marshmallow, an operating system created for Android mobile devices where its main characteristic is not to give up all permission to use the applications, using an opt-in as a regulatory system where the user when downloading an app decides what to allow and that no, putting or removing accessibilities in the permission of use such as sharing location information, photographs or the camera, videos or sound among others, this application remembers through notices that it should allow and that it should not.