Talk:Android 11

Draft
I am going to post this here to have a discussion so the changes quit being reverted. If you have any disputes please reply to them on here before reverting.

JshKlsn (talk) 00:25, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Android R
I'm creating this section to discuss the comment in the lede – introduced by Special:Diff/941683388 and Special:Diff/942029385 – that states:

In the Android 10 article, "Android Q" is not used. From Android 10 § History: "On August 22, 2019, it was announced that Android Q would be branded solely as "Android 10", with no codename. Google ended the practice of giving major releases titles based on desserts, arguing that this was not inclusive to international users (due either to the aforementioned foods not being internationally known, or being difficult to pronounce in some languages). Android VP of engineering Dave Burke did reveal during a podcast that, in addition, most desserts beginning with the letter Q were exotic, and that he personally would have chosen queen cake. He also noted that there were references to "qt"—an abbreviation of quince tart—within internal files and build systems relating to the release."

In the Android version history article, "Android Q" and "Android R" are not used. From Android version history § Overview: "The project manager, Ryan Gibson, conceived using a confectionery-themed naming scheme for public releases, starting with Android 1.5 Cupcake. Google announced in August 2019 they were ending the confectionery theming scheme to use numerical ordering for future versions. The first release under the numerical order format was Android 10, which was released the following month."

189.158.223.52 (talk) 01:49, 1 October 2020 (UTC)


 * It's just an internal codename. It doesn't need to be in the article because it's not the common name or one of the common names. The only reason why it was mentioned earlier is probably because rumors had been referring to Android 10 as Q because there wasn't yet a dessert-based name available for it, and once they announced that they were 86ing the dessert-based names, use of "Android Q" continuously decreased. Apple has internal code names for macOS releases, like Mojave was codenamed "Liberty", but these aren't included in the articles. So I think it's really not necessary to add "Android R" to the article. Herbfur (talk) 02:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)