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Rooting [1] is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually smartphones and tablets. Because Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel , rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative ( superuser ) permissions ...
Android Cupcake is the third version of the Android operating system, developed by Google, being the successor to Android 1.1. It was released on April 27, 2009 and succeeded by Android Donut on September 15, 2009.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was first unveiled at the Google I/O developer conference on June 27, 2012, with a focus on "delightful" improvements to the platform's user interface, along with improvements to Google's search experience on the platform (such as Knowledge Graph integration, and the then-new digital assistant Google Now), the unveiling of the Asus-produced Nexus 7 tablet, and the ...
Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin and Chris White, with Rich Miner and Nick Sears [13] [14] joining later. Rubin and White started out build an Operating System for digital cameras viz FotoFrame. The company name was changed to Android as Rubin already owned the domain name android.com.
Advanced security: deactivated root usage by default. [129] Added support for SimplyTapp. Introduced Cyanogen's own launcher, Trebuchet. 10 Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) 10.0.0 13 November 2012 [53] Expandable desktop mode. Built-in, root-enabled file manager. Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) 10.1.3 24 June 2013 [130] Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) 10.2.1 31 ...
Android 4.4W KitKat, with wearable extensions (API 20) Version Release date Features 4.4W [179] June 25, 2014 [180] Initial release of the Android Wear platform for smartwatches: the same as Android 4.4 "KitKat", but with wearable extensions added. 4.4W.1 September 6, 2014 [181] UI updates for Google Maps navigation and alarms. 4.4W.2 October ...
Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the seventh version of Android, a version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and released in December 2010. Version [ edit ]
Android 4.1.1, used in various portable devices. [137] Chris Smith writes in Boy Genius Report that just this one version of Android is affected but that it is a popular version of Android ( Chitika claim 4.1.1 is on 50 million devices; [ 138 ] Google describe it as less than 10% of activated Android devices).