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Android version history

Android version history, also called the list of Android releases, covers Google's mobile operating system from Android 1.0 in 2008 through Android 17 in 2026.

Android XR

Android XR is an operating system for extended-reality headsets and glasses, built by Google on Android and announced in December 2024 with Samsung; most Android apps run on it.

AndroidWorld

AndroidWorld is an open-source benchmarking environment for autonomous computer-control agents, created at Google DeepMind and released in May 2024. It runs on a live Android emulator with 116 tasks across 20 apps.

Andrology

Andrology: the medical discipline of male reproductive biology, male genital diseases, and male infertility, spanning endocrinology, spermatogenesis, and semen analysis; its flagship journal Andrology formed in 2013 from the merger of the International Journal of Andrology and the Journal of Andrology.

Andromache (crater on Dione)

Andromache is a 439-km-wide IAU-named impact crater on Saturn's moon Dione, centered at 5.85°, 288.36°, named for Hector's wife from Virgil's Aeneid, approved August 24, 2026.

Andromache (Ἀνδρομάχη)

Andromache (Ἀνδρομάχη), Hector's wife and Astyanax's mother in the Iliad; enslaved by Neoptolemus in Euripides' tragedy; later marries Helenus and rules Molossia in Epirus.

Andromaque

Andromaque is a five-act verse tragedy by the French dramatist Jean Racine, first performed in 1667 and his first major success, telling of Hector's captive widow Andromache.

Andromeda (constellation)

Andromeda is a northern constellation representing the chained princess of Greek myth, best known as the home of the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

Andromeda (TV series)

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (2000-2005), Canadian-American space opera series developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe from Roddenberry notes, starring Kevin Sorbo as Dylan Hunt restoring the fallen Systems Commonwealth; retooled episodic after Wolfe's 2001 exit.

Andromeda (Ἀνδρομέδα) (mythology)

Andromeda (Ἀνδρομέδα), Greek mythology princess, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia of Aethiopia; chained for sacrifice to Cetus, rescued and married by Perseus; mother of Perses, ancestor of Persian kings; constellation namesake.

Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, is a spiral galaxy about 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the nearest large spiral to the Milky Way.

Andromeda II

Andromeda II (And II) is a dwarf spheroidal satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy, discovered in 1972, known for a stellar stream revealing an ancient merger between two dwarf galaxies.

Andromeda paradox

The Andromeda paradox, also called the Rietdijk–Putnam–Penrose argument, is a special relativity thought experiment described by Roger Penrose in 1989.

Andromeda–Milky Way collision

The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is the predicted future interaction between Andromeda and the Milky Way, likely merging billions of years from now, though recent studies still debate the odds.

Andromedik

Andromedik is the stage name of Axel Demarbaix, a Belgian drum & bass producer and DJ from Edegem who broke out on Liquicity with "Forever" and "Your Eyes".

Andrónico Luksic Abaroa

Andrónico Luksic Abaroa (1926–2005) was a Chilean businessman born in Antofagasta who built the Luksic Group, a mining, banking, and beer empire; Forbes valued him at US$4.2 billion.

Andronikos I Komnenos

Andronikos I Komnenos (Ἀνδρόνικος Αʹ Κομνηνός), last Komnenian Byzantine emperor (1183–1185), cousin-rival of Manuel I, reformer of taxation and offices, tyrant, overthrown and killed by the Constantinople mob in 1185.

Androphilia and gynephilia

Androphilia and gynephilia are behavioral-science terms for sexual attraction to adult males and to adult females respectively; ambiphilia denotes both. They classify attraction by its object, independent of the person's own sex or gender identity, and are preferred over homosexual/heterosexual for cross-cultural and transgender research.

Andropogon

Andropogon (bluestems) is a pantropical grass genus of Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae, with roughly 80-120 species in Africa and the Americas; it includes big bluestem (A. gerardii), dominant tallgrass prairie grass and biofuel crop, and is polyphyletic, prompting taxonomic splitting.

Andropogon gayanus

Andropogon gayanus (gamba grass, andropogon grass), Kunth 1833, a tall tufted C4 Poaceae grass native to Cape Verde and tropical and southern Africa, grown as tropical pasture (4–25 t/ha DM) and a declared invasive weed in northern Australia.

Andropogon gerardi

Andropogon gerardi (big bluestem, turkey-foot) is a tall native warm-season C4 prairie grass of North and Central America, once 70-90% of tallgrass prairie, used for forage, restoration, and erosion control.

Andros

Andros is the largest island of the Bahamas (about 5,959 km²), an archipelago of North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros with under 10,000 people, the country's largest freshwater aquifer, over 180 blue holes, and the world's third largest barrier reef.

Andros Townsend

Andros Townsend, English winger; Tottenham academy graduate (93 appearances, 2011-2016), nine loan spells; scored on England debut v Montenegro 2013; later Newcastle, Crystal Palace, Everton, Luton Town, Antalyaspor.

Androstane

Androstane is the saturated tetracyclic hydrocarbon and parent structure of the C19 steroids, sitting between estrane and pregnane in steroid nomenclature, with derivatives that include the androgens testosterone and dihydrotestosterone.

Androstane-3,17-diol

Androstane-3,17-diol, also called androstanediol, is a saturated C19 steroid of formula C19H32O2 formed mainly as a metabolite of dihydrotestosterone, occurring as stereoisomers including 3α-diol and 3β-diol.

Androstenedione

Androstenedione, also known as androst-4-ene-3,17-dione, is a 19-carbon steroid hormone made by the adrenal glands and gonads and a direct precursor to testosterone and estrogens.

Androy Region

Androy (Faritra Androy) is a region in Madagascar's far south, capital Ambovombe, 18,884 km², five districts, 900,235 people (2018). Semi-arid, drought-prone home of the Antandroy, with 63.4% food insecurity and 'Kere' famines.

Andrus

Andrus (Mount Andrus), volcano 390023, is a 2,978 m trachytic shield volcano with a 4.5 km caldera in the Ames Range, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica; no Holocene eruptions are known.

Andrus Veerpalu

Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier born 1971, double Olympic 15 km classical gold medalist (2002, 2006), 2001 and 2009 world champion, later banned for complicity in the 2019 Seefeld blood doping case.

Andruw Jones

Andruw Jones is a Curaçaoan former baseball center fielder who won 10 straight Gold Gloves with the Atlanta Braves and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2026.