Android Versions (sounds tasty)

Quite interesting about Android is their version code naming. You may notice that their version code names are based on dessert names. Here is a brief summary of the features of each version.

v1.5 (Cupcake) - This is the first major platform release for phones.

• Ability to record and watch videos through camcorder mode
• Uploading videos to YouTube and pictures to Picasa directly from the phone
• A new soft-keyboard with text-prediction
• Bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP support
• Ability to automatically connect to a Bluetooth headset within a certain distance
• New widgets and folders that can populate the Home screens
• Animated screen transitions

v1.6 (Donut)

• An improved Android Market experience
• An integrated camera, camcorder, and gallery interface
• Gallery now enables users to select multiple photos for deletion
• Updated Voice Search, with faster response and deeper integration with native applications, including the ability to dial contacts
• Updated search experience to allow searching bookmarks, history, contacts, and the web from the home screen
• Updated technology support for CDMA/EVDO, 802.1x, VPNs, and a text-to-speech engine
• Support for WVGA screen resolutions
• Speed improvements in searching and camera applications
• Gesture framework and GestureBuilder development tool
• Google free turn-by-turn navigation

v2.1 (Eclair)

• Optimized hardware speed
• Support for more screen sizes and resolutions
• Revamped UI
• New Browser UI and HTML5 support
• New contact lists
• Better contrast ratio for backgrounds
• Improved Google Maps 3.1.2
• Microsoft Exchange Server by Exchange ActiveSync 2.5 support
• Built in flash support for Camera
• Digital Zoom
• MotionEvent class enhanced to track multi-touch events
• Improved virtual keyboard
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Live Wallpapers

v2.2 (Froyo)

• General Android OS speed, memory, and performance optimizations
• Additional application speed improvements courtesy of JIT implementation
• Integration of Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine into the Browser application
• Increased Microsoft Exchange support (security policies, auto-discovery, GAL look-up, calendar synchronization, remote wipe)
• Improved application launcher with shortcuts to Phone and Browser applications
• USB tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot functionality
• Added an option to disable data access over mobile network
• Updated Market application with batch and automatic update features
• Quick switching between multiple keyboard languages and their dictionaries
• Voice dialing and contact sharing over Bluetooth
• Support for numeric and alphanumeric passwords
• Support for file upload fields in the Browser application
• Support for installing applications to the expandable memory
• Adobe Flash 10.1 support
• Support for extra high DPI screens (320 dpi), such as 4" 720p

v2.3 (Gingerbread)

• Updated user interface design
• Support for extra-large screen sizes and resolutions (WXGA and higher)
• Native support for SIP VoIP telephony
• Support for WebM/VP8 video playback, and AAC audio encoding
• New audio effects such as reverb, equalization, headphone virtualization, and bass boost
• Support for Near Field Communication
• System-wide copy–paste functionalities
• Redesigned multi-touch software keyboard
• Enhanced support for native code development
• Audio, graphical, and input enhancements for game developers
• Concurrent garbage collection for increased performance
• Native support for more sensors (such as gyroscopes and barometers)
• A download manager for long-running downloads
• Improved power management and application control
• Native support for multiple cameras
• Switched from YAFFS to the ext4 file system

v3.0 (Honeycomb)

• Optimized tablet support with a new user interface
• Three dimensional desktop with redesigned widgets
• Refined multi-tasking
• Browser enhancements including tabbed web pages, form auto-fill, bookmark syncing with Google Chrome, and private browsing
• Support for video chat using Google Talk