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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 Oreo (codenamed Android O during development) is the eighth major release and the 15th version of the Android mobile operating system.. It was initially unveiled as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2017 and later made available to the public, on August 21, 2017.
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.
A Dalvik-powered phone. The relative merits of stack machines versus register-based approaches are a subject of ongoing debate. [17]Generally, stack-based machines must use instructions to load data on the stack and manipulate that data, and, thus, require more instructions than register machines to implement the same high-level code, but the instructions in a register machine must encode the ...
Android Studio supports all the same programming languages of IntelliJ (and CLion) e.g. Java, C++, and with more extensions, such as Go; [20] and Android Studio 3.0 or later supports Kotlin, [21] and "Android Studio includes support for using a number of Java 11+ APIs without requiring a minimum API level for your app". [22]
A preview of 7.1 for existing Nexus devices was released via Android Beta Program later in the month, [31] and officially released as Android 7.1.1 on December 5, 2016. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] As of 7.1.1, the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 were considered end-of-life, and did not receive any further updates.
The Java language is a key pillar in Android, an open source mobile operating system. Although Android, built on the Linux kernel, is written largely in C, the Android SDK uses the Java language as the basis for Android applications but does not use any of its standard GUI, SE, ME or other established Java standards. [83]
In early 2019 Resurrection Remix 7.0.0, 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 were released, based on Android 10. [2] The project seemed abandoned after a disagreement between two major developers which caused one of them (Acar) to leave, but in mid-2020 Resurrection Remix came back with 8.5.7.