Every Android Version Ever! 

Autofill is the best feature that was introduced in Android 8 Oreo. Can't imagine my app logins without it.

Man I miss naming new android version after a sweet treat, it was a big thing guessing what the next version will name after. Froyo is when most people start getting their first smartphone. Honeycomb is for tablet. Lollipop is what define Android as we know it today. I remember all of that. Now It's just cold hard version number that doesn't really mean anything.

Growing up to see and use most of these: ICS and Lollipop were game-changing updates. Marshmallow refined Material Design set by Lollipop and, imo, was the Pinnacle Android experience.

Jellybean and Kitkat, both my favorite versions EVER. Would love a short video on the evolution of LineageOS/Cyanogenmod and custom ROMS.

The HTC "G1" really earned the name "Dream." It was my first smart phone during a time when I already had an iPod Touch, and I loved everything about the Android, from its physical keyboard (and nub-like mouse-ish thing!) to the fact that it had a MicroSD card and a user-replaceable battery, to the fact that you could sideload apps without jailbreaking! It looked, felt and worked like a TNG-era tricorder (and yes, I had the app for that) and felt like a real and unique tech device for nerds, unlike the iPhone clones that would come along to dominate. I upgraded to the HTC "G2," which was very much a thematic successor, with that tricorder feel but sleeker, slimmer and faster, and that was and still is my favorite phone I've ever owned. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

I'd love to see a "samsung" vs android, bc I think Galaxy phones got many of those futures 1-2 years before Android natively supported it.

A - Angel cake B- Battenburg C- Cupcake D- Donut E- Eclair F- Froyo, Frozen yogurt G- Gingerbread H- Honeycomb I- Ice-cream sandwich J- Jellybean K- Kitkat L- Lollypop M- Marshmallow N- Noughout O- Oreo P- Pie ... There u go, hella diabetic list

The year was, 2011, its my first ever android phone. How time flies fast. I miss my Xperia Pro Mini. Its sleek style is always a catcher whenever I pull it out then use the keyboard.

fun fact, they still have dessert names, they're just used dev side and not used as part of the marketing. android 10 was called "quince tart" and 11 "red velvet cake/rvc". you can see why they didn't use them for marketing lol also keep in mind this is just what an engineer said on podcast, but it *seems* legit

"And you could even play GIFs (yes i say gifs)" you and me both James 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Followed Android since the beginning, every older version is nostalgic to me for different reasons lol

I miss the old version naming

0:03 "...Android..." *shows iPhone 😂

This is much more of a stock video feel than a informative video about how the UI changed or how the actually ram management change or anything else more informative

He didn't say anything about each version's easter eggs! Iconic and integral to the Android experience

If Google kept the same naming scheme from before: Android 6 would've been Android 5.2, Android 7 - Android 5.3 Android 8 - Android 5.4 Android 9 - Android 6 Android 10 - Android 6.1 Android 11 - Android 6.2 Android 12 - Android 6.3 Android 13 - Android 6.4

I'm waiting for Android 16/17/18 because things will be quite fun. 13 is not that bad, with the trucker hat and all, but movie characters don't quite count

It's been 15 years already????

Around Lollipop was peak Android for me. I REALLY loved Material Design. It was so sleek. It moved Android from looking like a borderline bootleg device to a truly modern phone

Apple was justing sitting and dubbing all android features like face unlock and pip and multitasking 😂 etc

Y'all should've also mentioned that the initial version of Android was in development earlier and longer than iOS, but they had to go back to the drawing board to make some improvements.

Every iOS version video would take about 10 seconds: 2008: Smart phone with touch screen 2021: added widgets

I still remember being blown away when updating my LG G2 from Kit-Kat to Lollipop by the material design!

Back in the 7th grade/Honeycomb days, my group made a presentation about android at school for a project in computer class. I'm now in college majoring in computer engineering. Man, how far has android come :D

Now I know to go back to 4.4 to get rid of all the ridiculous notifications

I upgrade my phone so infrequently that I went from Android 6 on my Note 4 to Android 11 on my current Galaxy S20 FE 5G(now at Android 12). WOWEE what a difference. I had a Samsung Tab 7 (the one form 2011) that had 3.0 on it. I didn't really like it, and wished it was more like my phone, since I used the phone more.

I still use 4.2 Android tablet and its amazing. I love how cool the UI looks. They kept dumbing it down after that version I feel like. VIsuals wise of course, altho I do like how clean (and simplistic) the new version can look too.

I still have my original HTC Incredible, rooted of course. Nowadays it's out to pasture and simply serves as an FM transmitter when I want to listen to local sports in my living room.

I miss being super hyped for new Android releases with my friends. I still remember when one of my buddies came to school one day with his new Jellybean phone and we were all major envious~

Small spoiler for Android 13: I saw in Android Studio that the next version of Android is called "Tiramisu" and is available as a beta today in Android Studio ... The latest release is mostly like Android 12 but even in the new version, it's called "Tiramisu"...

Only OGs remember having to go into the settings app (or widget) to change [Screen Brightness].

Fun fact, they still have food names, they just aren't used for marketing purposes. For example, 10 is Quince Taft and 13 is Tiramisu

Android 10: Quince Tart Android 11: Red Velvet Cake Android 12: Snow Cone Android 13: Tiramisu The dessert names didn't go away, they just aren't front and center.

ART and Material was the biggest game changers of android in the actual life.

I had the Samsung Epic with 2.1 Éclair as my first Android phone. And first OLED. That phone made me realize how great OLED was. Gingerbread was I think the biggest update for mass marketability. That was a turning point for a lot of app support and UI experience I feel like. Very few apps made after Gingerbread ran on 2.2 or earlier. KitKat/Lollipop was for sure the evolutionary change where android really felt good and smooth and much more iOS like in just kind of working on everything.

My little brother came in while I was watching the first phone with android part, and asked: "Is that how old phones used to look like". And something died inside me a little, especially cause he's not wrong

It would have been nice to see more pictures of each version

It's been almost 5 years since the release of Android Oreo 😶 I feel old

Pronouncing GIF with a guh sound is correct. As Juh-IF refers to Jeff's Image Format (JIF) or JPEG Interchange Format (Also JIF). The first is a picture format and the second is basically a GIF except with a different compression. Don't need more confusion when referring to image standards.

flashbacks of my previous phones on 1 video, the nostalgia! My first phone was Android Gingerbread, what was yours?

I came here to see more about android history, ended up watching mostly for the sweets in the illustrations

0:54 I still use beautiful widgets on my main screen!

My last android phone before switching to iPhone was Galaxy’s S3 Android 4

I remember seeing the upgrade from ICS to KitKat then Lollipop and Marshmallow, each of them impressed me with how much better the experience was. Even bringing my Nexus 5 at the time more life with smother animations. After that I went to Oreo and that felt like another huge leap. However after that, to me it has felt like a smaller jump. Which I understand the system is very mature now and rather than leaps its more like refinements. I do hope we later see big leaps again.

The HTC G1 was my first Android phone in 2008, so I’m an OG. Android 1.0 was the start of the revolution. Glad I was there at the beginning to experience it.

4:50 "by holding down the power button" why don't we just remove this neat feature on the next version?

Maybe it's just my opinion, but I think that it was Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, that initiated the Android experience that we are now used to

I switched with the Samsung Note 2 running Jellybean and haven't seen anything compelling in iOS to make me want to switch since.

Lol. I still have my wife and I T-Mobile G 1s. I guess they were called dreams in Canada or something?

End of dessert names? Ha! Internally they still use them. 😏 Android 10: Queen Cake 🎂 Android 11: Red Velvet Cake 🍰 Android 12: Snow Cone 🍧 Android 13: Tiramisu 🍮 We can have our cake and eat it too! Our just desserts 🍪 :3

I have been using split screen since 2013 using the Galaxy S4. Samsung was ahead of the curve.

Worst updates I remember: Lollipop - made it difficult to put your phone on silent 12 - notification drop down now takes several swipes to view settings Also whichever version dropped support for 32 bits. It's a phone, for goodness sake.

2:46 Jellybean, lets gooo! My first version of android, and I've used it ever since. I remember always wanting to move to android from iOS because of the widgets, and I still haven't looked back, haha.

Android internal names from Google: Android 10: Quiche Android 11: Raspberry Pie (Or Pi :p) Android 12: Snow Cone Upcoming Android 13: tiramisu (this is listed in Android Studio)

Next video: every android easter egg

Ice Cream Sandwitch was truly the aesthetic revolution of Android , it was the one first big before and after, i remember it coming out everyone was absolutely blown away by the beauty and innovation of Android 4.0 , specially with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Fun fact: the first letter of Android names is actually corresponding in order of the alphabet from A all the way to P. Alpha Beta Cupcake Donut Eclair Froyo Gingerbread Honeycomb Ice cream sandwich Jellybean KitKat Lollipop Marshmallow Nougat Oreo Pie After that it changed to numbers

me and my dad started with Android 3 or 4 on a super old samsung phone, we always loved that purple dynamic theme

“Make your phone less annoying” -Immediately goes to sponsor So much for that

I remember updating from gingerbread to ice cream sandwich with my galaxy s2, it was mindblowing.

"video editied by taran" he's surely gonna be missed ❤ Godspeed TVH 💯

I honestly can't remember anything before ICS. I remember a friend constantly harping about how great it was which was why I started paying attention. it's possible prior to that release i was still on flip phones. oh well. back in those days i thought that smart phones were unnecessary. who needs to have internet everywhere all the time? ha-ha-ha

The desserts are still used in Android development code names! They're not really publicly exposed to the public though, except through a few developer settings: Android 10: Quince Tart Android 11: Red Velvet Cake Android 12: Snow Cone Android 13: Tiramisu

You should do a longer version of this video with an in-depth review of each generation of Android represented by what you think is the best phone for that generation. Plus and Apple version for an additional video.

That jump from KitKat to Lollipop will never cease to amaze me

Currently using the Samsung note 9. I've got the pixel expensive custom ROM installed with android 12.1. These phones are given a few more years of life with the help of custom roms. Can't believe my old 2018 phone runs the same version of Android as the pixel 6 pro

My favorite was Kitkat, that's when I learned to root.

I still have my HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) and it still works! I was sliding the absolute sh*t out of the screen for 3 years or so and it still works as smooth as ever. Definitely not the "easily breakable screen" as mentioned in the video!

Project butter! Ice cream sandwich was the first version after project butter which included a lot of tweaks on the back end of Android to greatly improve animation and general UI smoothness.

Every version of iOS? Windows? Xbox OS? PS OS? Every version of Linus?

Man they should ask Jon to do some of these, if he is willing to. He literally is the unsung hero of LMG for writing some of the best and thoroughly researched tech bits on youtube.

Android KitKat is so much more modern than Android 12 that it's insulting. It came from a time where system wide dark mode was taken for granted and wasn't thought of as "dark mode". Buttons were clear and defined, and good looking. Tablet support was at its peak (although Android 12L has some benefits) with KitKat. Lockscreen widgets were a thing. Removable batteries could be taken for granted. I want to live in 2013 again.

You missed Jelly Bean's Project Butter aimed at making Android animations smoother for 60fps goodness. That's right, Android hasn't always been 60fps!

I always love fooling around with the Easter eggs in the different version numbers from gingerbread on

Android 5, Lollipop, was so big, it killed so many devices. My 1 year old Nexus 7 no longer ran well after 5.0, and tons of people reported the issue too

Aye, you forgot that Android 8.0 oreo, also introduces project treble which seems like just under the hood upgrade but was a big deal.

Only OGs remember using your screen as a flashlight with an app.

Man Jellybean and Kitkat brings me back. I can't believe it has been several iterations since then...

I remember waiting for updates like crazy and willl never forget samsung which said Galaxy mini 2 and ace 2 will get android 4.1.4 or 4.1.6 and neither got them in reasonable time (I think ace 2 got it later). However - thank to some guy who made custom cyanogen mod for galaxy mini 2 - I could run android kit kat on phone that officially ended on 2.3.6. Crazy stuff and I even managed to softlock myself.

Man I remember working as a kid to get my first android device iPhone and black berries were wayyyy to expensive for a little kid and I couldn't get the games I wanted cause I had jellybean not KitKat man those were the times.

Sill mad that they took away multitasking from Oreo. You used to be able to just hold down the square button to multitask. Now you have to take 5 steps just to sidescreen. And there's no option to make it behave like the old way.

"Android 9 (Pie) was the last version to be named after a tasty dessert." The developer preview of Android 13 is called Tiramisu. ;-)

its hilarious that ios doesnt have lots of these features still even though they came out in 2015

Gingerbread is the most memorable for me. First Android phone I got ran it. I learned rooting back when I was around 12 because I got jealous of the new flashy phones being released while my phone was just a mere Samsung Galaxy Y. I also learned about overclocking, flashing, recovery, and so much more as I continue down the rabbit hole. Now, I'm 21 years old and studying computer science in uni.

My first experience with Android was with Gingerbread. Haven't left Android since. I'm happy to have witnessed Android's evolution even if I started late. :D

i honestly hated that blindingly white Lollipop that much that i intentionally downgraded my Galaxy S5 back to 4.4.2 Kitkat and ran that all the way to 2017 when i got Nokia 8. Luckily it was trivial to get custom themes running on android 8.0 so i could ran dark theme on it quite easily. Getting my Xperia 1 mk1 in 2019 with it's Android 10 and officially supported dark theme was GREAT. to be honest i did like the accent colors on Lollipop, all they would have had to do would have been to add dark theme and it would have been perfect.

Oh man I still remember Android 1.6 on my Xperia x8 was a hell of a fun ride nowadays the new version of android is kinda boring but back then with each update it would have got a lot of new features that everyone was hyped for

I'm so early, Taran still work for LMG

You should a video about the apple versus Android patent wars... like auto rotate etc

We need to petition to bring back the dessert naming scheme. Android 13 Toffee anyone?

"Not everyone wanted an easily breakable sliding screen" And yet they're fine with a foldable screen that clasps shut on itself now XD

ics was crazy back in the day. I remember downgrading later devices so I could still one click root them

I love how most of the versions are foods and candy names imao

My favourite was Nougat and Oreo that brought almost all the features I needed and still use

1 Android 1.0 (2008) 2 Android 1.1 (2009) 3 Android 1.5 Cupcake (2009) 4 Android 1.6 Donut (2009) 5 Android 2.0 Eclair (2009) 6 Android 2.2 Froyo (2010) 7 Android 2.3 Gingerbread (2010) 8 Android 3.0 Honeycomb (2011) 9 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (2011) 10 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (2012) 11 Android 4.4 KitKat (2013) 12 Android 5.0 Lollipop (2014) 13 Android 6.0 Marshmallow (2015) 14 Android 7.0 Nougat (2016) 15 Android 8.0 Oreo (2017) 16 Android 9 Pie (2018) 17 Android 10 (2019) 18 Android 11 (2020) 19 Android 12 (2021)

I had a Samsung tablet running jelly bean and has been working since 2013. I still have it today.

I love how almost every version has a dessert/sweet as the name. Saying, "Hey, I just got the new Android KitKat" Is Wayyyyy better than saying, "Hey I just got the new Android 4.4"

1:29 Took 'em that long? Even crappy Nokia phones supported animated GIFs for some time by then!

Weird that I recognized the names so much more than I would for any numbered version

i hit Arrow Right "to skip" instantly now whenever i hear words like *You know what isn't annoying !?* i kinda can now smell sponsor messages from a mile away lol