Our Android overlords don’t just come from one distant planet. There are different breeds of Android, or “versions” if you’re more used to terrestrial lingo. Each new version of Android has brought enhancements, improvements and additions, and word is there are even more bizarre mutations to come.
Each Android version is named after a type of dessert too, with delicious-sounding codenames whetting our appetite for their high-tech contents. Want to know which version of Android is inside your Android phone? Here’s a run down of the ones that have landed, what their special powers are and the next lot you can expect.
Google Android is not in line for a multitouch makeover. That’s the official word from a Google insider, who says the next bump to its OS, Donut, will not support those gestures 
Android 2.0 – aka Donut, according to Google’s cake-based naming system – is chock full of new features, as demonstrated at the Google I/O conference yesterday. Unsurprisingly, given the source, search is high on the list.