Google's Android names

Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google. With a user interfacebased on direct manipulation, Android is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized user interfaces for televisions (Android TV), cars (Android Auto), and wrist watches (Android Wear). The OS uses touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching, and reverse pinching to manipulate on-screen objects, and a virtual keyboard. Despite being primarily designed for touchscreen input, it also has been used in game consoles, digital cameras, regular PCs (e.g. the HP Slate 21) and other electronics.

Google is naming its latest robot mobile package once Kit Kats. Here’s a glance at Google’s history of naming every version of the system once sweet treats:

2008
Android 1.0 — no nickname

2009
Android 1.1 — no nickname
Android 1.5 — Cupcake
Android 1.6 — Donut
Android 2.0 — Eclair

2010
Android 2.2 — Froyo
Android 2.3 — Gingerbread

2011
Android 3.0 — Honeycomb
Android 4.0 — Ice Cream Sandwich

2012
Android 4.1 — Jelly Bean

2013
Android 4.4 — KitKat

2015

Android 5.0-Lollipop