In 2020, everything is pastel, including Android 11. Android VP of Engineering Dave Burke revealed the internal codename “Red Velvet Cake” in an interview with All about Androidvia Droid life.
Google’s alphabetical dessert naming scheme has been an Android tradition for years, dating back to Android 1.5 Cupcake in 2009. But last year, instead of naming Android Q after a dark puff or sweet tart, Google He chose to abandon desserts entirely for his public releases. in favor of numerical names, starting with Android 10 and continuing with the upcoming release of Android 11 this fall.
But that is not the whole story. As Google’s Sameer Samat said, Vice President of Product Management for Android The edge Last year, the company still uses dessert-based alphabetic code names internally for new Android releases. Burke revealed last year that Android Q had been known internally as “Quince Pie” and that it would likely have been called “Queen Cake” if the decision to continue using tasty titles continued.
Red Velvet Cake appears to be the continuation of that tradition for this year’s version of Android, which would have been named Android R under the old naming scheme. It shows: it is pastel to the bottom.
