Android

Android is iOS's biggest mobile operating system competitor made by Google. The operating system is Linux-based. Android was released as a beta version on November 12, 2007 and was released to the public a year later on September 20, 2008. Android has always named their operating systems after food since 1.5. Android's most recent release is called 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Acquisition of Android Inc.
Android originally started out as a company in October 2003, and nothing much before the acquisition was known about Android. In August 2005, Google Inc acquired Android Inc., making Android Inc., owned entirely by Google Inc. When Android was bought, most of the Android Inc.'s key people stayed, and at the time people predicted that Google was about to enter the phone industry.



1.0
1.0 was the first Android OS. It contained the Android Market, the Web Browser, folders, email, lots of Google's services (such as Gmail and Google Maps), texting, media player, etc. The first Android device from Android Inc. (after being acquired by Google) contained 1.0, which was the HTC Dream. It was released on September 23, 2008.

1.1
1.1 was the follow up to the first Android OS. It was only available to the T-Mobile G1 (which was also the HTC Dream). It was released on February 9, 2009. It was very minor, as of it mainly just contained bug fixes.

1.5 Cupcake
Cupcake was the first OS that had names of food. It was released on April 30, 2009. It contained many things such as widgets, text prediction, video recording, copy and paste for the web browser, uploading videos to YouTube, etc.

1.6 Donut
Donut was the last OS follow up to 1.0, which was the first OS in the Android OS series. Released on September 16, 2009

2.0/2.1 Eclair
Released:October 26, 2009

2.2 Froyo
Released:May 20, 2010

2.3 Gingerbread
Released:December 6, 2010

3.0 Honeycomb
This version was tablets only Released:February 22, 2011

4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Released:October 19, 2011

4.1 Jellybean
Released:June 27, 2012