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Android has been with us for about 15 years now, and it runs on around three billion devices,

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way more than even Windows. So today we're gonna look back at every version

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of Android ever, starting out with 1.0, which came out way back in 2008, an innocent time.

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It looked a little something like this, with the first mass-market Android phone

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being the HTC Dream, featuring 256 megs of storage,

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an actual physical keyboard, and an incredibly lifelike 320 by 480 display

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that slid away from the main body. You get that satisfying,

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kinda clicks down when you hang up. But unsurprisingly, not everyone wanted

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an easily breakable sliding screen. So it was good that Android 1.5 Cupcake,

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released in 2009, introduced support for auto rotation,

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as well as an on-screen keyboard. It also allowed for third-party widgets,

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setting the stage for everyone and their mother to come out with a weather forecast on your home screen.

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We got Android 1.6 Donut later in 2009,

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which gave quality-of-life improvements like better scaling for different-sized phones,

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as well as text-to-speech support. But 2.0, E.Claire, came later that same year

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and represented a bigger improvement that introduced multi-touch support

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and a large suite of photo editing features, as well as an incessant adlets for the OG Motorola Droid.

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The next year, we got Android 2.2 Froyo, which allowed you to use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot

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and also supported Adobe Flash, for as long as that was relevant.

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And it could even play animated GIFs, yes, I say GIFs,

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marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of human society. This was followed by 2.3 Gingerbread later in 2010,

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which provided resolutions up to 1366 by 768,

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along with support for NFC signals and the all-important selfie cam.

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Honeycomb or Android 3.0 graced us with its presence

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in 2011 and was actually a tablet-only version

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that introduced a whole new UI design and support for browser tabs and multi-core processors.

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The next version for phones though was Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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That one further refined the user experience, bringing us swipe to dismiss as well as face unlock,

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which some people actually thought was an unnecessary gimmick.

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We got Android Jelly Bean 4.1 in 2012, which crucially allows you to individually disable

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notifications from specific apps so you could finally silence those stupid freemium games.

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2013's KitKat or Android 4.4 helped with optimizing Android

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for lower-end devices, as there were plenty of phones out

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that didn't run Android all that well. But Android 5.0 Lollipop from 2014 was a bigger deal,

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as it gave us notification cards similar to how notifications are handled today.

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This was part of Google's push to get their new design language, material design,

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onto phones, which was supposed to provide visual elements that were cleaner and more intuitive.

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2015's release was Marshmallow 6.0, which gave us support for biometric unlocking via fingerprint.

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I can't believe they didn't have it before. And USB-C support, so we no longer had to fight

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to insert the cable the right way. 2016's Android 7.0 Nougat didn't have a creamy center,

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but it did give us a split-screen option for displaying multiple apps,

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as well as customizable settings icons in the notification shade.

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Still with us, we're getting to the more modern area of Android now, with 2017's 8.0 Oreo

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that brought us picture-in-picture. I guess the little screen is like the Oreo's filling.

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Who wrote this? Along with wider color gamuts and even a self-repair tool called Rescue Party

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that could save you from getting stuck in a boot loop. Android 9 Pie from 2018 was the last version

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to be named after a tasty dessert, unfortunately, and brought a refresh of material design,

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disabled notifications from apps you habitually dismissed automatically,

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and introduced notch support, which was something I know all of us

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were waiting for with bated breath. 2019's Android 10 is the oldest version

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that still supported at the time we wrote this video, and not only did it make our lives easier

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with simple gestures like swipe to go back, which I actually use instead of the buttons,

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but it gave us the long-requested system-wide dark mode

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so that we can obliterate our retinas a little more slowly.

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Android 11, released in 2020, clamped down on privacy

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by restricting when apps could fetch your location and made accessing payment methods and smart home functions

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a bit easier by holding down the power button. But 2021's Android 12 gave us another privacy boost

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by mandating a green indicator whenever the camera or microphone is active,

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alongside a major redesign called Material U.

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And aside from the stupid name, it looks like it'll be with us for quite a while,

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as a way to distinguish Android from its major competitor, iOS.

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So that's every version of Android ever, until, of course, Android 13 comes out,

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and we'll have to do this whole video all over again, because we're completionists like that.

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with your suggestions for topics for us to cover in the future, or for your favorite feature

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that we totally missed in this roundup.