Phones from OnePlus, Xiaomi, Nokia, and others slowly followed.įollowing in the tradition started with Android 10, Android 13 does not have a fun dessert nickname. It arrived first on Google Pixel phones, but was quickly rolled out to Samsung Galaxy devices as well. They did it again for Android Oreo.Īndroid 13 is the latest version of Android, and it was released on August 15, 2022.

Android KitKat marked the first time Google teamed up with a commercial manufacturer for an Android release.

This eventually evolved into the consumer-focused Pixel device line we have today.

Google initially released developer-focused Nexus devices to highlight each Android version’s power.

It not only combined the tablet and phone versions of the OS, but completely overhauled the look and feel of the system.

Ice Cream Sandwich was arguably the most dramatic update to Android to date.

The separate phone and tablet OSes were then combined starting with Ice Cream Sandwich.

Honeycomb was the only tablet-specific version of Android, and it ran alongside the Gingerbread build for phones.

Android 8.0-8.1, Oreo: Aug(initial release)Īs you can see, the update system was without any sort of regularity early on, but the Ice Cream Sandwich era started the yearly OS version update schedule.

Android 7.0-7.1.2, Nougat: Aug(initial release).

Android 6.0-6.0.1, Marshmallow: Octo(initial release).

Android 5.0-5.1.1, Lollipop: Novem(initial release).