Android 1.5 Cupcake
A Cupcake is a small, individually-sized cake baked in a cup-shaped mold. It is usually served with frosting on top. Android 1.5 wasn't the first version, but versions before it have not received any codenames. Listing from some mouths that it was supposed to be version 1.2, but Google decided to make it a major revision and made it 1.5 instead. Among the many changes with Cupcake, third-party keyboard and Widgets were enabled and the phone could upload directly to YouTube and Picasa.
Here are some features of Cupcake.
- Support for third-party virtual keyboards with text prediction and user dictionary for custom words.
- Support for Widgets.
- Video recording and playback in MPEG-4 and 3GP formats.
- Auto-pairing and stereo support for Bluetooth.
- Copy and paste features in the web browser.
- User pictures shown for Favorites in Contacts.
- Specific date/time stamp shown for events in the call log, and one-touch access to a contact card from call log event.
- Animated screen transitions.
- Auto-rotation option.
- New stock boot animation.
- Ability to upload videos to YouTube.
- Ability to upload photos to Picasa.