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Android Version Naming
1. Android Version Naming
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,.. What’s this ?? Well this is the order in which most of Android versions are named so far. Don’t believe me..well here you go..
Android Versions * Android (System) * Beta (version 1.0) (released on November 5th, 2007) * CupCake (version 1.5) * Donut (version 1.6) * Eclair (version 2.0) * Froyo aka Frozen Yoghurt (version 2.2.x) * Gingerbread (version 2.3.x) * Honeycomb (version 3.x) * Icecream Sandwich (version 4.x) (The latest stable version is 4.0.4 which was released at march 28th) * J…? (version 5.0? 4.1?)
I don’t know if you have noticed, but all of these names are also names of different kinds of deserts (Android and beta excluded though)! Interesting!
My best guess is that they will continue naming the next generations of Android versions in this pattern. So what do you think the next version of Android will be called?
2. Who gave birth to Android?
Well.. Google didn’t. Android Inc. was actually a company bought by Google back in 2005.
Android Inc. was originally founded in 2003.
3. What does Google get out of Android
Long term goal of Google is to capture large market share of Mobile Ad revenue.
Some would say that Google are a search engine company. Others would say they’re an email company, or a web host, or a content distribution network (CDN) provider, or an application provider for businesses, or… the list goes on and on.
But the truth is, Google is an advertising company. They sell advertisements.
Advertisements for your website, they sell advertisements they include in your search results, heck they even sell advertisements for the apps you use on your phone!
4. Android is Open Source:
Some people doesn’t know this, but Android is actually Open Source.
To those of you that doesn’t know what that mean here’s some basic information about what Open Source programs have in common: * The users of Android have access to the source code. * The

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