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Do you like Ice cream sandwich or lollipop. Donut is better or Eclair. whether cupcake is your cup or tea or not. It looks easy to make a choice but in technical world Donut is better than cupcake, eclair is better than donut and Froyo ( Frozen yogurt) is better than cupcake, eclair and Donut. If you are given a choice to rank among Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, honeycomb, Ice cream sandwich, Jellybean, kit kat, lollipop, Marshmallow  and Nougat what you will choose? Well Google has ensured you prefer Nougat above all these irrespective of your taste. Reason ! because alphabetically N comes after all mentions desserts.

Still puzzled,  Google has launched famous operating system Android and named its version after desserts. Aldo Google ensured that version are in alphabetical order. Now in order to have best Android version , you have to choose latest so all the desserts mentioned Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, honeycomb, Ice cream sandwich, Jellybean, kit kat, lollipop, Marshmallow you shall end up choosing Nougat above rest.

All code name of Android and their version numbers are as below

Cupcake:

  • Android 1.5

Donut:

  • Android 1.6

Eclair:

  • Android 2.0
  • Android 2.1

Froyo:  Frozen yogurt

  • Android 2.2

Gingerbread:

  • Android 2.3

Honeycomb:

  • Android 3.0
  • Android 3.1
  • Android 3.2

Ice Cream Sandwich:

  • Android 4.0

Jelly Bean:

  • Android 4.1
  • Android 4.2
  • Android 4.3

KitKat:

  • Android 4.4

Lollipop:

  • Android 5.0
  • Android 5.1

Marshmallow:

  • Android 6.0

Nougat:

  • Android 7.0

 

All Android version with release date are as below

Android version name Android Version number Announcement date
(Not Announced) 1.0 September 23, 2008
(Not Announced) 1.1 February 9, 2009
Cupcake 1.5 April 27, 2009
Donut 1.6 September 15, 2009
Eclair 2.0–2.1 October 26, 2009
Froyo 2.2–2.2.3 May 20, 2010
Gingerbread 2.3–2.3.7 December 6, 2010
Honeycomb 3.0–3.2.6 February 22, 2011
Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0–4.0.4 October 18, 2011
Jelly Bean 4.1–4.3.1 July 9, 2012
KitKat 4.4–4.4.4 October 31, 2013
Lollipop 5.0–5.1.1 November 12, 2014
Marshmallow 6.0–6.0.1 October 5, 2015
Nougat 7.0–7.1.2 August 22, 2016
Oreo 8.0

Google is working on new version, it shall start with ‘O’ however official name is not announced.

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