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Android Marshmallow (codenamed Android M during development) is the sixth major version of the Android operating system developed by Google, being the successor to Android Lollipop. It was announced at Google I/O on May 28, 2015, and released the same day as a beta , before being officially released on September 29, 2015.
This is a list of Android distributions, Android-based operating systems (OS) commonly referred to as Custom ROMs or Android ROMs, forked from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without Google Play Services included officially in some or all markets, yet maintained independent coverage in notable Android-related sources.
CyanogenMod 7.1 was released on 10 October 2011, based on Android 2.3.4. [39] The latest stable version, CyanogenMod 7.2 was released on 16 June 2012, based on Android 2.3.7, [40] bringing a predictive phone dialer, lock-screen updates, ICS animation backports and many bug fixes. [41]
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 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.
[2] [3] Wear OS is designed to pair with mobile phones running Android (version 6.0 "Marshmallow" or newer) or iOS (version 10.0 or newer), [12] providing mobile notifications into a smartwatch form factor and integration with the Google Assistant technology. [13]
Android Lollipop (codenamed Android L during development) is the fifth major version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and the 12th version of Android, spanning versions between 5.0 and 5.1.1.
A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices.While computers such as typical/mobile laptops are "mobile", the operating systems used on them are usually not considered mobile, as they were originally designed for desktop computers that historically did not have or need specific ...