ColorOS

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ColorOS
ColorOS logo.svg
Logo used since 2020
Developer Oppo
OS family Android
Working stateCurrent
Initial releaseSeptember 23, 2013;11 years ago (2013-09-23)
Latest release 15 / October 17, 2024;42 days ago (2024-10-17)
Latest preview 14 / November 16, 2023
Available in 67 [1] languages
List of languages
  • Global: English and others
  • Català – Catalan
  • Čeština – Czech
  • Dansk – Danish
  • Deutsch (Deutschland) – German (Germany)
  • Deutsch (Schweiz) – German (Switzerland)
  • English (Australia) – English (Australia)
  • English (Ireland) – English (Ireland)
  • English (New Zealand) – English (New Zealand)
  • English (United Kingdom) – English (United Kingdom)
  • English (United States) – English (United States)
  • Español (España) – Spanish (Spain)
  • Español (México) – Spanish (Mexico)
  • Euskara – Basque
  • Filipino – Filipino
  • Français – French
  • Galego – Galician
  • Hrvatski – Croatian
  • Indonesia – Indonesian
  • Italiano – Italian
  • Kiswahili - Swahili
  • Magyar – Hungarian
  • Melayu – Malay
  • Nederlands – Dutch
  • Norsk bokmål – Norwegian Bokmål
  • O‘zbek – Uzbek (Latin)
  • Polski (Polska) – Polish (Poland)
  • Português (Brasil) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Português (Portugal) – Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Română – Romanian
  • Slovenčina – Slovak
  • Slovenščina – Slovenian
  • Suomi – Finnish
  • Svenska – Swedish
  • Tiếng Việt – Vietnamese
  • Türkçe – Turkish
  • Ελληνικά – Greek
  • Български – Bulgarian
  • Қазақ тілі – Kazakh
  • Русский – Russian
  • Українська – Ukrainian
  • עברית – Hebrew
  • اردو – Urdu
  • العربية – Arabic
  • नेपाली – Nepali
  • मराठी – Marathi
  • हिन्दी – Hindi
  • অসমীয়া – Assamese
  • বাংলা (বাংলাদেশ) – Bangla
  • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ – Punjabi
  • ગુજરાતી – Gujarati
  • ଓଡ଼ିଆ – Odia
  • தமிழ் – Tamil
  • తెలుగు – Telugu
  • ಕನ್ನಡ – Kannada
  • മലയാളം – Malayalam
  • සිංහල – Sinhala
  • ไทย – Thai
  • བོད་སྐད་ – Tibetan
  • ລາວ – Lao
  • မြန်မာ (Unicode) – Burmese (Unicode)
  • ဗမာ (Zawgyi) – Burmese (Zawgyi)
  • ខ្មែរ – Khmer
  • 한국어 – Korean
  • 日本語 – Japanese
  • 简体中文 – Simplified Chinese
  • 繁體中文 – Traditional Chinese
  • 繁體中文 (香港) – Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
License Proprietary
Official website ColorOS 15

ColorOS is a user interface created by Oppo based on the Android Open Source Project. Initially, Realme phones used ColorOS until it was replaced by Realme UI in 2020. Realme UI uses some of ColorOS's apps. [2] Starting from the OnePlus 9 series, OnePlus will preinstall ColorOS on all smartphones that are sold in mainland China instead of HydrogenOS (Chinese version of OxygenOS). [3]

Contents

The first version of ColorOS was launched in September 2013. Oppo had released plenty of Android smartphones before then. It was not stock Android, but Oppo did not label it as ColorOS. Over the years, Oppo launched new official versions of the operating system. To make things less confusing, in 2020 the company revealed that it would adopt the same numbering scheme as mainline Android, and as such, ColorOS jumped from ColorOS 7 to ColorOS 11 with the launch of Android 11.

It was announced that ColorOS, OnePlus' Oxygen OS, and Realme UI will merge to form a single Android skin that will appear on all OnePlus, Oppo and Realme UI phones. [4] However these plans were cancelled as the three UI's are being developed on the same codebase, but they are separate. [5]

Version history

ColorOS version Android version Release date
1.0 4.1 Jelly Bean September 23, 2013;11 years ago
1.14.2
1.24.3
2.0 4.4 KitKat
2.1 5.0 Lollipop
2.1.0i5.0
3.05.1March 17, 2016;8 years ago
3.1 7.0 Nougat
3.27.1
5.0 8.0 Oreo
5.18.1 Oreo
5.28.1 Oreo
5.2.18.1 Oreo
6.0 [6] 9 Pie March 17, 2019;5 years ago
6.0.19 Pie
6.19 Pie
6.1.29 Pie
6.7 10
7.010November 26, 2019;5 years ago [7]
7.110
7.210
11 11 September 14, 2020;4 years ago
11.111December 23, 2020
11.211
11.311
1211/12 September 16, 2021;3 years ago
12.112February 24, 2022
13 13 August 19, 2022;2 years ago
13.113March 21, 2023
13.213August 29, 2023
14 14 November 16, 2023;12 months ago [8]
14.114May 23, 2024;6 months ago
15.0 15 October 17, 2024;42 days ago [9]

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