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 release.

Google released the first public version of the Extension SDK, which aims to bring features of the latest Android version to older versions. Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about ...

Extension SDK has gone public. With it, versions of Android 11 and 12 should be able to use new features that were exclusive to Android 13.

However, the most popular version of Android remains Android 11, present on 23.1% of Android devices worldwide. Even the decade-old Android 4.4 KitKat remains present on a whopping 15 million devices.

In a blog post on the Android Developers website, the company announced a new Extension SDK framework that will allow developers to offer certain features from newer versions of Android to devices ...

The Android SDK, short for Android Software Developer Kit, is arguably the most powerful software utility widely used by programmers who indulge in Android app development. The Windows version of ...

Apps can declare the newest version of Android they support via a "Target SDK" flag. To prevent old apps from breaking, new features and app restrictions in, say, Android 12 only apply to apps ...

After two years of development, Google today released Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aimed at Android developers.