Google released the next version of Android
By Prempal Singh
Google has Android version increases every 12 months. Despite the predictability of the numbers the next version of the mobile operating system users annually organize discussions around the serial number and the name of the new version of Android.
Most often, the company increases the first digit in the version number to 1, and the name is always associated with a sweet dessert. This year in March was released the first version of Android for developers About, and in May – again confirmed by a capital letter in the name of Android. Nevertheless, the serial number of Android has not been delivered at the stage of Google I / O, and only a couple of days ago was accidentally discovered in the source code of the updated application.
A serial number of Android O occurred as a result of studying the code of new APK Google Photos and Google Keep, which were issued on 1 June. The Android Manifest file both applications direct reference to Android 8.0.0 has been detected.
PlatformBuildVersionCode part of the code responsible for the level of API, which is oriented applications, and for the convenience of ordinary users every API refers to a particular number of Android – in this case, a reference to it can be found in platformBuildVersionName. A day later, an indication of the 26-level API appeared in the Android Pay version 1.24 and Gboard, Gmail, Google App, Google Calendar, Google Maps, etc. By the way, the operating system Android 7.1.1 is tied to the API 25.
Unfortunately, the second “sweet” name Android 8 is not yet disclosed, but according to the majority of it will Oreo.