I don't even think material design is such a big update compared to the jump from Gingerbread(eww!) To many of today's looks that derived from the massive update to Ice Cream sandwich. Sigh
Isaac Campos That's because butthurt haters of The Verge only watch the Apple videos. It's funny how Android users watch more Apple related videos than Android related videos...
The most important transition from Eclair to Froyo was the ability to move apps to SD card. It was a nice feature addition since most of the phones, even the flagship ones, at that time had an internal memory of 512 MB to 1 GB.
This needs to be updated as soon as possible! I honestly really love this video, even as an Apple user. Just reuse the music again as well as the theme, and then just add the latest Android versions all the way to 13!
I like material design. I'm still waiting for Google to give in to consumer demands and merge Chrome OS with Android. Android on an ultrabook would be amazing.
I remember having an Android Honeycomb tablet… it was like the weirdest experience on Android EVER. It was just… so DIFFERENT. ICS was honestly the update that, to me, made Android one of the best OS's out there.
Why? iOS is older and has seen similar growth to Android. I think it's insane that so many people call out The Verge as being too "Apple-centric," yet those saying that are just mindless Android followers themselves.
God, i remember getting my G1 in the mail.. i tried IPhone for a week and hated it.. as soon as i started playing with android i was like "I'm home" and haven't looked back since.. #Android4Life
It depends on the person. I like both the GUI of iPhone iOS 7 (and onwards) and Android's Kitkat (and onwards). I just need a good OS that combines both.
As an ios user but technology lover,android sucked ass untill ICS,i saw ICS on an HTC and it was refreshing from all the previous ugly versions of android,finally they made something good,jellybean was even better but since ICS android has become a serious thing,now with lollipop i am glad they are making android a definitely better experience than ever before,the better the competition is,the better products we'll get. Good job Google!!
***** thanks man,the same i would say about android fanboys, come on, we love technology,people just need to stop being stubborn and realize everything is good, that the world of mobile technology has evolved in a lot since late 2000's, thanks to the competition and the constant need for better things, the more mature android, ios and windows phone are,the more similar they become.some people complain about smartphones being not as smart, i believe some people isn't still clever enough to take the best out of some smartphones.
genito66666 i like how well developed they arer, and their core are the apps you can find in their markets, they have it all, windows doesn't, BB is half dead for me hehe i always wanted their overexclusiveness. So i do like ios, but i oprefere it jailbroken, and i like android, reminds me of how we uised to use our cellphones in the past, more freedom and variety.
genito66666 man i live in costa rica, this country has not much variety, just android everywhere, in every store, mostly crappy cheap samsung smartphones, carriers sell iphones but they are too expensive,and some fewpeople buy windows phones, i have no access to other OSs, i wanted to see ubuntu in a nexus but, not gonna happen here hehe we gotta import a nexus from the US cuz they don'ty sell them here.
genito66666 same here haha the Colon worths 500 times less than a dollar, so when i see a 400$ smartphone in ebay or amazon, it usually costs 600-7004 here, for dslr cameras.. exactly the double.
Еми.. Така e. Само недей дава грешна информация - нашите цени не са умножени с повече от 2. Даже и 2 не достигат. И всъщност не сме толкова бедни. ENG: Well, that's it. Just don't provide wrong information - our prices aren't multplied (I am not sure if it's spelled like that lol) with more than 2. They can't even hit 2. And we're not that poor, acctually.
When The Verge mentioned Apple, people called them BIASED, but when they didn't mention Apple in a video at all, people bitchin' out. Jeez... People in the comment section are kinda fucked up.
Nice Video, The Verge, but you should've shown off the Nexus 7 (2012) at 3:11 instead of the Nexus (2013), as this was the flagship device for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Nachdem das Video zu Ende war, wusste ich nicht was mich irritiert hat. Jetzt weiß ich es. Wahrscheinlich hatten sie keins und dachten, wird schon keiner merken...
This video was really informal and i like that a lot. Its hard to believe that android has changed so much. The person who made this video got it perfect the presentation, the length, everything.
This was a pretty nifty video, I have been following the software changes since Honeycomb. They should still concentrate on trying to get the latest software to older phones, especially since they committed with making it work better with lower spec device. They should have something like samsung, that allows users to go on their website and download the updates for themselves.
Can't wait until Lollipop becomes officially available for my OnePlus One. This is my first Android Phone (before I had a Windows Phone and an iPod Touch) and I actually really like it, can't wait for all those lollipop animations though.
Me too... I still have my og droid and the droid 2 global. I remember taking that droid 2 overseas and calling, texting, etc like I was still in jerz... A month later got a Verizon bill for almost $1200. Fun times... 😊
My first smartphone was the Sprint Flash. It had android 4.0 on it. I thought it would get an update knowing that 4.1 was just a minor improvement but boy was I wrong.
I was SHOCKED they didn't mention Apple once. Especially near the beginning of the video. Been noticing they've been cleaning up their bias image a bit lately. Good to see them completely separating iOS and Android for once.
I've been using Android phones since my HTC EVO 3D in 2011 which had 2.3 (Gingerbread) on it. Long before then though, my Mom had a Samsung Moment with 1.5 (Cupcake) on it.
I quite liked the dark blue & black "Tron" style. It was easy on the eyes and on battery life. I'm not very happy with Lollipop... I really dislike that they took away the lockscreen widgets.
+DodgaOfficial You mean vertical scrolling? Marshmellow has a vertically scrolling app drawer. You can also use Nova launcher. If you meant the pull up drawer in cupcake, then you can use Nova launcher Prime. It has gestures, and you can do anything with swipes and taps. You can set the "open app drawer" action for the "swipe up" gesture.
Edward Kothalawala thanks for the suggestions, but I've already tried all of those. The drawer I'm talking about literally had a tab you could grab and as you pulled it upwards the drawer would follow your finger. It wasn't gesture based, as you could pull it halfway out and then slide it back down if you wanted.
I've always kind of wonder why they name their versions after desert foods? Oh oh google, we're going to release Flan 1.0 lol or cheese cake fudge 2.0 for like the future or something and I'm just curious why does google name their versions after desert food?
Sufiyan Shaikh HAHAHAHAHAHAHA -_- if they had another os competing against android and they run following by different spicy sauce names like version Salsa 1.0, Tabasco 2.0 Jufran 3.0, Jalapeno 4.0, Ghost Pepper 5.0, and then Tabasco Pepper Sauce 6.0. Haha I would buy those phone running on hot sauce os just because of the names lol.
I am running Android Oreo on my G530W Grand Prime. Cool, eh! It stops at lollipop, but I got Oreo off of the Android website. I also got JellyBean for my little cousin and he owns an S3. He likes JellyBean the most, even after I let him try all the android versions.
"Moving Android from something running on your phone to something running everything in your life" does the last line of the video sound a bit ominous to anyone else?
i love Android i just wish they would update all old devises i have so many phones i wish i could update with out rooting or doing all this crazy stuff to it
Kinda miss some of the old school Tron-feeling Android designs. Material design is such a giant leap from Google though.
I don't even think material design is such a big update compared to the jump from Gingerbread(eww!) To many of today's looks that derived from the massive update to Ice Cream sandwich. Sigh
Those were the ugliest designs
I have a phone that is Android 2.3 :D
+Sam Spain I'd personally love to see a mixture of the tron-feeling interfaces with material design.
Hey I'm surprised Apple wasn't mentioned at all
Even though Android 1.0 - 3.0 phones looked like iPhones
***** they didn't lol. Samsung phones did, but that has little to do with Android.
Isaac Campos you did :p
Isaac Campos That's because butthurt haters of The Verge only watch the Apple videos. It's funny how Android users watch more Apple related videos than Android related videos...
Lol very true
does anyone else feel old after watching this?
E. Duncan I do
yeah kinda
E. Duncan me
whatsup with that scary background music
I like the background music, it sounds spacey lol.
Yeah, it sounds droidy!
Reminds me of some Royksopp tunes.
It literally makes my ears bleed
Theme Park Nerd your spelling is creepy
I like the oldschool look of this video, great attention to detail. It even has that subtle blurriness of old videos!
As someone who's had Android since the G-1, this was a delightful trip down memory lane. Thanks The Verge!
The most important transition from Eclair to Froyo was the ability to move apps to SD card. It was a nice feature addition since most of the phones, even the flagship ones, at that time had an internal memory of 512 MB to 1 GB.
And now we have 8.0 Oreo,in less than a decade Android experience has become much better
This needs to be updated as soon as possible! I honestly really love this video, even as an Apple user. Just reuse the music again as well as the theme, and then just add the latest Android versions all the way to 13!
I like material design. I'm still waiting for Google to give in to consumer demands and merge Chrome OS with Android. Android on an ultrabook would be amazing.
I remember having an Android Honeycomb tablet… it was like the weirdest experience on Android EVER. It was just… so DIFFERENT. ICS was honestly the update that, to me, made Android one of the best OS's out there.
Teistooher my Allview A4ALL had honeycomb or gingerbread and youtube was black.
Dear sound mixer,
Why do you have a soft spoken person talking...under...louder music?
Signed,
Everyone with ears.
They should make "A brief history of iOS" video, it would probably be 5 minutes shorter than this one.
Why? iOS is older and has seen similar growth to Android. I think it's insane that so many people call out The Verge as being too "Apple-centric," yet those saying that are just mindless Android followers themselves.
They already have, and it shows changes equal or greater than android.
1 second video showing the home screen from 2007 - done!
Conor Nordberg top kek
It's okay Blendi. I understand your joke :)
I miss Joshua :( 3:30
*Android isn't perfect.* But what it has done and *mean* today is even bigger.
God, i remember getting my G1 in the mail.. i tried IPhone for a week and hated it.. as soon as i started playing with android i was like "I'm home" and haven't looked back since..
#Android4Life
That's the best story I've ever heard
OrangeIron Lol.. I'm digging your sarcasm brah
+paul Z Still a better love story than twilight
It depends on the person. I like both the GUI of iPhone iOS 7 (and onwards) and Android's Kitkat (and onwards). I just need a good OS that combines both.
kemboy323 Sounds like Android to me, you can skin it however you want
I wanted to give this a thumbs up, but the background music was way overwhelming, and it sounded like cheesy alien invasion movie music.
As an ios user but technology lover,android sucked ass untill ICS,i saw ICS on an HTC and it was refreshing from all the previous ugly versions of android,finally they made something good,jellybean was even better but since ICS android has become a serious thing,now with lollipop i am glad they are making android a definitely better experience than ever before,the better the competition is,the better products we'll get. Good job Google!!
***** thanks man,the same i would say about android fanboys, come on, we love technology,people just need to stop being stubborn and realize everything is good, that the world of mobile technology has evolved in a lot since late 2000's, thanks to the competition and the constant need for better things, the more mature android, ios and windows phone are,the more similar they become.some people complain about smartphones being not as smart, i believe some people isn't still clever enough to take the best out of some smartphones.
genito66666 i like how well developed they arer, and their core are the apps you can find in their markets, they have it all, windows doesn't, BB is half dead for me hehe i always wanted their overexclusiveness.
So i do like ios, but i oprefere it jailbroken, and i like android, reminds me of how we uised to use our cellphones in the past, more freedom and variety.
genito66666 man i live in costa rica, this country has not much variety, just android everywhere, in every store, mostly crappy cheap samsung smartphones, carriers sell iphones but they are too expensive,and some fewpeople buy windows phones, i have no access to other OSs, i wanted to see ubuntu in a nexus but, not gonna happen here hehe we gotta import a nexus from the US cuz they don'ty sell them here.
genito66666 same here haha the Colon worths 500 times less than a dollar, so when i see a 400$ smartphone in ebay or amazon, it usually costs 600-7004 here, for dslr cameras.. exactly the double.
Еми.. Така e. Само недей дава грешна информация - нашите цени не са умножени с повече от 2. Даже и 2 не достигат. И всъщност не сме толкова бедни.
ENG:
Well, that's it. Just don't provide wrong information - our prices aren't multplied (I am not sure if it's spelled like that lol) with more than 2. They can't even hit 2. And we're not that poor, acctually.
When The Verge mentioned Apple, people called them BIASED, but when they didn't mention Apple in a video at all, people bitchin' out.
Jeez... People in the comment section are kinda fucked up.
Nice Video, The Verge, but you should've shown off the Nexus 7 (2012) at 3:11 instead of the Nexus (2013), as this was the flagship device for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Nachdem das Video zu Ende war, wusste ich nicht was mich irritiert hat. Jetzt weiß ich es. Wahrscheinlich hatten sie keins und dachten, wird schon keiner merken...
I fucking hate the background sounds
On android or on this video?
+Kyle Netherwood the video obviously
This video was really informal and i like that a lot. Its hard to believe that android has changed so much. The person who made this video got it perfect the presentation, the length, everything.
Great video. More like this on other companies please.
This was a pretty nifty video, I have been following the software changes since Honeycomb. They should still concentrate on trying to get the latest software to older phones, especially since they committed with making it work better with lower spec device. They should have something like samsung, that allows users to go on their website and download the updates for themselves.
That's a whole lot of treat's you got there! Gotta love sweet, old Android ;)
Stills awesome needs to be remade with the following versions
Can't wait until Lollipop becomes officially available for my OnePlus One. This is my first Android Phone (before I had a Windows Phone and an iPod Touch) and I actually really like it, can't wait for all those lollipop animations though.
My first smartphone was the very first Galaxy S. Yes, the one that had a slide-out keyboard. Wonderful memories with that thing.
Loved this!
#datOGdroid
Still holding on to mine Wes Andrade :-)
Me too... I still have my og droid and the droid 2 global. I remember taking that droid 2 overseas and calling, texting, etc like I was still in jerz... A month later got a Verizon bill for almost $1200. Fun times... 😊
Eek! (>_
The tron/holo theme from ice cream sandwich was by far the best looking of any version.
I used to have android kickat 4.4.2 on a Samsung galaxy tab 3 7.0 , now I'm using android lollipop 5.0.1 on my new LG g pad VR80 8.0
"Moving Android from the software that ran on your phone, to the software that runs on everything in your life"
Yup, I'm still rocking T-Mobile G1 with 1.6 Donut myself
Ice Cream Sandwich didn't add Roboto it added Droid Sans which Roboto(introduced with Lollipop) is based on.
Thanks for the video. This was all good to know, as I'm switching from Windows Phone to Android tomorrow.
I miss the old school look from 2011
It's now 2018, that means we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Android by October 22nd! I hope Google will not forget about that.
I like the assembled outline of changes.
My first smartphone was the Sprint Flash. It had android 4.0 on it. I thought it would get an update knowing that 4.1 was just a minor improvement but boy was I wrong.
It was kind of awkward not to hear anything about the iPhone or iPad. Hahah great video though
Evolution of Android be like: dessert all you can eat!
So the only way to get positive comments is for The Verge to say nothing but good things about Android. Interesting...
It's the reason why these comments are just a cesspool...
Wrong. Dont mention apple, then people will be happy. Plus, some criticism was on this video.
I was SHOCKED they didn't mention Apple once. Especially near the beginning of the video. Been noticing they've been cleaning up their bias image a bit lately. Good to see them completely separating iOS and Android for once.
Yet, you keep Apple in the conversation. Great job!!!
this was a really good video, it had a really warm and relaxed feel to it
I'm so pumped to get my Nexus 6 later this week.
Droid Sound :D
Anyone know the background music? its really nice.
it's important to mention the open source release nature of the platform.
I've been using Android phones since my HTC EVO 3D in 2011 which had 2.3 (Gingerbread) on it. Long before then though, my Mom had a Samsung Moment with 1.5 (Cupcake) on it.
I quite liked the dark blue & black "Tron" style. It was easy on the eyes and on battery life. I'm not very happy with Lollipop... I really dislike that they took away the lockscreen widgets.
This video is a masterpiece... So nostalgic....
I loved the pull up app drawer in eclair I've been searching for a launcher that let's you do that for a long time and cannot find it
+DodgaOfficial You mean vertical scrolling? Marshmellow has a vertically scrolling app drawer. You can also use Nova launcher.
If you meant the pull up drawer in cupcake, then you can use Nova launcher Prime. It has gestures, and you can do anything with swipes and taps. You can set the "open app drawer" action for the "swipe up" gesture.
Edward Kothalawala thanks for the suggestions, but I've already tried all of those. The drawer I'm talking about literally had a tab you could grab and as you pulled it upwards the drawer would follow your finger. It wasn't gesture based, as you could pull it halfway out and then slide it back down if you wanted.
This video almost made me cry...
I love this video!!! Every time there's a new software update for Android...I always come back here to watch the video to see how far we've came 💯
4 years later, oh man you still have marshmallow? I have bean boozeled
I've always kind of wonder why they name their versions after desert foods? Oh oh google, we're going to release Flan 1.0 lol or cheese cake fudge 2.0 for like the future or something and I'm just curious why does google name their versions after desert food?
+Doug Cannon They are sweet and everyone likes them
Sufiyan Shaikh HAHAHAHAHAHAHA -_- if they had another os competing against android and they run following by different spicy sauce names like version Salsa 1.0, Tabasco 2.0 Jufran 3.0, Jalapeno 4.0, Ghost Pepper 5.0, and then Tabasco Pepper Sauce 6.0. Haha I would buy those phone running on hot sauce os just because of the names lol.
I guess you could say Android is sweet.
I am running Android Oreo on my G530W Grand Prime. Cool, eh! It stops at lollipop, but I got Oreo off of the Android website. I also got JellyBean for my little cousin and he owns an S3. He likes JellyBean the most, even after I let him try all the android versions.
really amazing how far android has come since the G1. still remember back in 2008 i hated android and now i love android
Man, I remember how awesome the g1 was.
"Moving Android from something running on your phone to something running everything in your life" does the last line of the video sound a bit ominous to anyone else?
I liked this but I wish the music selection was different. Everything else was great 😊
Nice overview of the platform.
I remember getting the G1, my very first smartphone. I thought it was the coolest shit ever lol
This is what we call a great video
Great retrospective! I'd love to see an apple version of this video! :)
2:17 nigahiga
I just had nostalgia looking back at donut
Well done 👏
My LG G2 runs android 5.1.1 lollipop and it works great!
Looking back, I do miss Holo from Android 4.1. Back when things were darker.
This was awesome. Finally a video without APPLE!
I really miss when my LG P970 ran Froyo...
Awesome video.
Watching it on my phone running android Pie in 2018!
I love this. Iv'e been waiting for something like this.
Great retrospective guys, but what's with the music?
The music sounds like its out of an old-school Sega Genesis game
Tears to my eyes, this is beautiful.
oh my how things have changed since then
Great history summary!
The backgroung music was way too loud and its like watching horror movies , which sucks
I am a huge Apple fan but I have to say that this was a very cool video to do. Apple could learn a thing or two from Google plus I like the music.
very nice video and "style", I liked the music
I experienced my galaxy s4 active overheating up to 60°c with android lollipop, thats why I want android marshmallow 6.0
Cool video! Really nostalgic
Am I the only one that likes the ice cream sandwich theme that was holo better than lollipops material design
great video verge!
This video made me hungry :/
What an Explanation As Simple As Android
hey! I think my grandpa used to have android 2.3 gingerbread with that same phone, then my brother had it. But now they both have the samsung s6
That's the phone that I have right now. Great choice.
goddamn it. why do you have to show the food that androids named after.? I'm hungry now.
Xinless Vice ikr
Xinless Vice same here mostly ice cream sandwich
🍩🍨🍧🍦🍰🍪🍫🍬🍭🍮🍯🍳🍔🍟🍝🍕🍖🍗🍤🍣🍱🍞🍜🍙🍚🍛🍲🍥🍢🍡🍘🍠🍌🍎🍏🍊🍋🍄🍅🍆🍇🍈🍉🍐🍑🍒🍓🍍🌰
xD
I'm now using android 6.0 (marshmallow) its awesome!
Good video, but the music is just a tad distracting.
Music too loud and high pitch. Can't hear what's going on.
Still using kitkat
Android kitkat makes me hungry
i love Android i just wish they would update all old devises i have so many phones i wish i could update with out rooting or doing all this crazy stuff to it
Android has come a long long way since it's inception.
I miss gingerbread i remember getting my first android phone which was the nexus s with gingerbread preinstalled
whats the music name pls?