
As part of these efforts, it introduced a new visual appearance codenamed "Holo", which is built around a cleaner, minimalist design, and a new default typeface named Roboto. The first phone with Android Ice Cream Sandwich was Samsung Galaxy Nexus.Īndroid 4.0 was focused on simplifying and modernizing the overall Android experience around a new set of human interface guidelines.

Unveiled on October 19, 2011, Android 4.0 builds upon the significant changes made by the tablet-only release Android Honeycomb, in an effort to create a unified platform for both smartphones and tablets.

Unsupported, Google Play Services support dropped since December 2018 Īndroid Ice Cream Sandwich (or Android 4.0) is the 9th major version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google.
