Android is the dominant smartphone OS on the global market, and over the years it has become essentially the only competitor to Apple's iOS. But the platform had humble beginnings before it erased the ...

Android — the software that powers many of today’s best smartphones — has been around since 2008. During that time, it has been used on a massive array of smartphones, tablets, wearables, and other ...

The first public release of the Android operating system was Android 1.0. By Android version 1.5, Google had adopted sweet treat codenames, with v1.5 becoming Cupcake. Since Android 1.0, we’ve seen 19 ...