Android's consumer face uses version numbers to represent progress, but for developers there is something called an "API level" (sometimes called the "SDK version"). This is a version number of ...

Explore Android's ongoing ... more like a 0.1-level update than anything deserving of a full number bump. But it started the trend of Google releasing one major Android version per year and ...

Talking of the latest update to Android (Version 5.1 of Lollipop rolls out)… Google has just officially announced the 5.1 SDK, which now represents API Level 22, to enable development and testing of ...

From religiously updating its Android Platform Distribution chart on a monthly basis, to yearly, and then doing away with it entirely, it's almost as if Google was getting increasingly shy of ...

and Maps." Android is one of the most cloud-based operating systems ever. Especially in older versions, many included apps and services were tied to your Google login, and if that stops working ...

In contrast, OpenGL is an older, higher-level API that abstracts ... to update to newer Android versions. This is important because it means that robust Vulkan API support will only get better ...

The table is shown when developers create a new project in Android Studio and determine which API version to target. The October 2018 report provides a good analog to compare adoption rates for a ...