Android Cupcake

Android 1.5 Cupcake:

Cupcake Technically Android 1.5 wasn't first verson, but versions before it don't seem to have recieved any codenames. Stories werw told that it was supposed to be verson 1.2, but Google decided to make it major revision and made it 1.5 instead. Among the many changes with Cupcake, third party keyboard and Widgets were enabled and phone could upload directly to YouTube and Picasa. The company codenamed the version "cupcake," which is how the trend of dessert names began.
A Cupcake is a small, individually sized cake baked in a cup shaped mold. It is usually served with frosting on top.
As well as the arrival of Android's own virtual keyboard , support for third party keyboards, including those with text prediction and user dictonaries, was added to the system. Along side this debut was the first time apperance of live and updatable widgets for the Android platform. sometimes we can't imagine being without now.
By default Android cupcake included five ;ive wedgets an analogue clock, a calendar , a music player, a picture frame and a search function, however the main thing was that the platform would support widgets created by third parties, allowing developers to go nuts.
Video recording and playback also formed a significant step forward in 1.5, featuring support for MPEG4 and 3GP formats. Cupcake added support for uploading to Youtube and Picasa straight from the phone. Video could be also uploaded to share via MMS and email. The neat thing about it was that, regardless of where you were uploading to the upload function was multitask friendly so you could set a video to upload while you got on with other things.
Copy and past functionality was added to the browser , browsing speed was also ramped up through it was still a far cry from the satisfactory smoothness of the version found in the later Honeycomb build. The SquirelFish Javascript engine atleast meant Java intensive website could now be better handled.
In cupcake users were able to see the profile pictures of contacts in their favourites for the forst time. This version also saw the introduction of animated screen transitions.