15 Years of Googling; 15 Never-Known Facts


#15 Why Android is named after desserts and sweets?

Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and recently KitKat- why do Google name Android versions after desserts and sweets? Google doesn't want to explain why, but Randall Sarafa, a Google spokesman said, "It's kind of like an internal team thing, and we prefer to be a little bit - how should I say - a bit inscrutable in the matter, I'll say.” "The obvious thing is that, yeah, the Android platform releases, they go by dessert names and by alphabetical order for the most part," he added.

To celebrate new version release of Android, a giant mock-up of the dessert that matches the codename is usually delivered to the Google Campus and put on display. You can see the mockups of all the Android versions placed together in the campuses; there is a mockup of KitKat Android too between them.

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