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Another year, another Android release. As you would expect, this year’s edition will be called Android 12, as Google scrapped its dessert name scheme for Android 2 years ago. Even if Android 12 will not officially have a nice dessert, that does not mean that Google has completely given up on giving its operating system a dessert name. While the version of Android 11 (Android “R”) from last year was internally called “Red Velvet Cake”, it seems that the version of Android 12 (Android “S”) is called “Snow Cone”.
Although Google has not officially confirmed its internally decided dessert theme for Android 12, we learned this little thing thanks to a little digging. When Google publishes the source code for Android 12 later this year, you may notice that many of the development branches are ‘sc’. In fact, it’s an abbreviation for Snow Cone, just as the development branches of Android 11 were preceded by ‘rvc’ for ‘Red Velvet Cake’. (What is it, you say? “Sc” can just as easily be cake cake? This is what we also thought, but checks notes it is not.)
Last year, Google released a fun AR statue with a hidden recipe for how create an Android 11-themed Red Velvet Cake. Maybe later this year we will get some fun bindings and Easter eggs based on the name of Android 12’s dessert?