1 <!-- 2 Copyright 2010 The Android Open Source Project 3 4 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 8 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 10 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 limitations under the License. 15 --> 16 17 # Android Platform Overview # 18 19 Our sister site, [developer.android.com](http://developer.android.com/), 20 includes feature overviews of the various Android platform versions. 21 The links below will take you to developer.android.com where you can view this 22 information. 23 24 The links below will navigate you away from this site. 25 26 ## [Android 2.3](http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html) ## 27 28 Android 2.3 corresponded to the "Gingerbread" milestone branch, and has an API level of 9. 29 30 ## [Android 2.2](http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html) ## 31 32 Android 2.2 corresponded to the "FroYo" milestone branch, and has an API level of 8. 33 34 ## [Android 2.1](http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html) ## 35 36 Android 2.1 corresponded to the "Eclair" milestone branch, and has an API level of 7. 37 38 The Eclair branch was also used for 2.0 and 2.0.1; however, both of those 39 releases were quickly obsoleted by the version 2.1 Eclair release. As Android 40 2.1 includes key bug fixes and improvements not present in 2.0/2.0.1, only 41 Android 2.1 should be used for new devices. As there is no compatibility 42 program for 2.0 or 2.0.1, the officially compatible Eclair-based release is Android 43 2.1. (The linked document refers to Android 2.0, because there were 44 no new platform features added in 2.1.) 45 46 ## [Android 1.6](http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.6-highlights.html) ## 47 48 Android 1.6 corresponded to the "Donut" milestone branch, and has an API level of 4. 49 50 ## [Android 1.5](http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.5-highlights.html) ## 51 52 Android 1.5 corresponded to the "Cupcake" milestone branch, and has an API 53 level of 3. 54 55 ## [Android 1.1](http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.1.html) ## 56 57 Android 1.1 has an API level of 2. Android 1.1 was known as 58 "Petit Four" internally, though this name was not used officially. 59 60 ## Android 1.0 ## 61 62 was the first release of Android, and has an API 63 level of 1. Since it was the first released version of Android, no platform 64 highlights were prepared for this release. 65 66
