Android 15’s dessert is apparently ‘Vanilla Ice Cream’

It’s the sweetest a part of every year’s Android launch — the dessert for 2024’s Android 15 is set to be “Vanilla Ice Cream.”

Android has had a protracted custom of naming every of its main releases after desserts, persevering with down the alphabet. From the times of Android Cupcake in 2009 by way of Android Pie in 2018, Google usually had enjoyable publicizing these dessert names and together with them as a part of the model title.

This modified with Android 10, which had the troublesome letter of “Q” and was in the end given a easy numeral. Internally, although, Google has continued to refer to every launch with a dessert title, together with Android 10’s “Queen’s Cake.”

Later this 12 months, Google will launch Android 14, which we’ve lengthy identified to make use of “Upside Down Cake” as its dessert code title. For 2024 and the presumed launch of Android 15, it seems to be like Google has already staked out a dessert for the letter V, as noticed by teamb58 and shared by Mishaal Rahman.

In a sequence of code modifications, we see that Android’s “Tradefed” (or “Trade Federation”) testing framework has been up to date with a brand new model that makes direct reference to Android 15’s “Vanilla Ice Cream” code title.

Of course, the code title sometimes doesn’t inform us a lot about what to anticipate from a specific Android launch. That being the case, we’ll doubtless nonetheless have fairly a little bit of ready to do to see what Android 15 Vanilla Ice Cream has in retailer for us. In the meantime, we’re solely simply starting to get a style of Android 14’s Upside Down Cake, the primary preview for which was launched lower than a month in the past.

More on Android:

• Android is including assist for eSIM switch between gadgets
• Android 14 will carry passkey assist for Dashlane and different apps
• Google is step by step rewriting Android’s Settings app with Jetpack Compose

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