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Friday, December 16, 2011

A Look At Android's Home Screens - From Cupcake To Ice Cream Sandwich

Oh, Android. How far have we come since the days of G1. In fact, tomorrow marks, 22 October, three years, was the day on Android phones in the U.S. consumer, and the T-Mobile G1 was Concepcion.

Released with Ice Cream Sandwich Android has finally gone through her seventh major iteration. Android How has it changed? What better way to illustrate the development of your Android home screen, the center of interaction with the user. Here is a look at the face of Android in the last three years.



Android 1.5 : Cupcake




Cupcake was the first step in what was, at the time that Google recently acquired mobile operating system Android. While Android 1.0 has been in the G1 introduced at the launch marks the first version of Android Cupcake is now well known (with things like a keyboard!), And also the start of system code used Google on the name for the versions of the operating system . Therefore we thought it best to start here.


Android 1.6 : Donut






Donut has been studied extensively under the hood for Android, and provided support for the CDMA network, text, voice, a function greatly improved and modernized research examines not only the Internet, but the phone also. Small visual changes (such as a color brighter notification bar) were carried out, but overall it seemed very similar to that of the cupcake.


Android 2.1 : Eclair




Android Eclair was the first renovation since its acquisition by Google. On the tray from the old application, wallpaper presented live, all symbols have been replaced, and Android has just begun to see much better. Points were added to the main screen and the menus have been improved, and overall performance.


Android 2.2 : Froyo






Android Froyo brought quickly launch icons for the bookmark and check the box next to the browser application and the addition of search menu widget for selecting type of research. Froy was estimated to improve performance and includes important changes that accelerated backend for the user experience and Android applications in particular.


Android 2.3 : Gingerbread 






Gingerbread was originally intended a "great" visual update to the Android. In fact, it's more of a polished boots. Gingerbread has finally the ugly bar, black message about the age for which you will end up seeing. Also launch icons were changed, and the outlines of the entire operating system color was green and black, elegant menu that changes orange lights changed. It was also the introduction of the cathode-style TV screen at a constant radius, which was absolutely incredible. Gingerbread has many other improvements, as well done - that the important updates for Google applications, and performance improvements. Oh, and a new keyboard.


Android 3.0 : Honeycomb







Honeycomb is probably as a springboard to bigger and better things Android pointing out - the idea never gained much traction. However, Google kind of design in this way. Honeycomb was a source of more or less closed and was never designed to run on mobile phones. So in reality was not like any other version of Android. But clearly, the details of design and interface functions of the Tablet OS on the development of the ice cream sandwich made ​​concentrated, so it is worth mentioning, at least.

Android 4.0 : Ice Cream Sandwich




Ice Cream Sandwich marks the biggest change from Visual Android Eclair. In fact, there are a lot more. Function keys of the software. Brand new icons. A source for a new system, the colors and reorganized menus. Ice Cream Sandwich is what Windows 7 to XP - which kind of works the same way, but now you can say, if there were big changes. And we love it. ICS also offers a number of improvements in hardware acceleration, new Google applications and a variety of other things. There are so many things that this update would not just try to cram everything into one paragraph.

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