10 Years of Android: How Android OS Has Made Our Lives Better

10 Years of Android: How Android OS Has Made Our Lives Better

Celebrating the best of Android!

Android OS celebrates 10 years this year, and Google’s operating system has evolved significantly. From the first Android phone to today’s current crop, Google has made several innovations and improvements to Android that made our lives easier. Let’s look back:

 

 

Android Cupcake (1.5) introduced us to virtual keyboards, which paved the way for a full touchscreen interface, eliminating the need for physical keyboards.

 

Google Maps has been an invaluable app for all of us, and Android first had it with Eclair (2.0+). Navigating through the traffic of finding our favorite coffee shop has never been easier since then.

 

Voice commands, you say? That first appeared in Froyo (2.2+), laying the many foundations of what would become Google Assistant today.

 

Google’s efforts in squeezing as much juice as possible from your phone started with Gingerbread (2.3) which introduced battery management features. Nowadays, using an Android smartphone for a whole day without heading to the nearest outlet or plugging through a power bank is

possible.

 

Android devices go beyond smartphones, and this paved the way for the tablet-specific Honeycomb(3.0). This build eventually gave birth to other Android products such as Android Auto, Android TV, Wear OS, and many more.

 

Keeping your life organized has been made easier with the introduction of Google Now in Jelly Bean (4.1). Paired with Froyo’s voice assistant, Google Now eventually evolved to today’s Google assistant.

But how about aesthetics? Lollipop (5.0) introduced Material Design, and it has been Google’s design philosophy in designing future Android builds.

Our love for emojis was acknowledged with Nougat (7.0), which also introduced better gender representation and race diversity so that you get to send the right emoji to your friends. In addition, it formally introduced native support for multi-windows for better multi-tasking.

Multi-tasking was improved further with Oreo (8.0) with support for picture-in-picture and Autofill. In addition, Oreo introduced Android Go—a lightweight version of Android made for phones with modest internals. 

Fast forward to Pie (9.0). Google apparently cares about your digital wellbeing, enough to introduce features like an app timer and a digital wellbeing dashboard, essential in ensuring that you don’t use your devices too much. In addition, Artificial Intelligence is natively utilized on Pie, predicting actions based on how you use your device.

What is your favorite Android feature? Share them down at the comments section below!

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