But now the time of reckoning is upon us, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus-- Android 4.0's mother ship -- is slowly spreading across the globe, its users being treated to this year's smartphone dessert.

Explore Android's ongoing evolution with this visual timeline of versions, starting B.C. (Before Cupcake) and going all the way to 2025's Android 16 beta release. What a long, strange trip it’s ...

With Google I/O 2025 streaming next week, we're taking a walk through the complete history of Android, from its humble beginnings in 2008 to today, with Android 16 on the way.

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 ...

In 2011, Google introduced Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich,” which took some of the design direction it had begun on tablets and moved it to phones. In the intervening two years, we’ve only ...

with a bit about Roboto. At its most basic, Roboto is a font -- the new face of Android in a post Honeycomb world where tablets and phones share the same software space. Sure, it may seem like ...

Jelly Bean here, Jelly Bean there. We have been hearing people rave about the latest Android version for the past days and have wondered what this latest version have in store. If you have an ...

Early Android devices used eMMC-based flash storage, a significantly slower storage technology than modern Universal Flash Storage (UFS). A blazing fast SoC paired with slow eMMC storage will ...

In a normal year, Google I/O would traditionally mark the release of a new version of Android Studio. While there hasn’t been a Google I/O event this year, the Android team has still seen fit to ...