Android 12’s dessert name could be Snow Cone

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Another year, another Android release. As you might expect, this year’s release will be called Android 12 since Google dropped its dessert naming for Android 2 years ago. Although Android 12 does not officially have a tasty dessert binding, it does not mean that Google has completely given up on giving the operating system a dessert name. While last year’s Android 11 (Android “R”) release was internally called “Red Velvet Cake”, this year’s Android 12 (Android “S”) release appears to be called “Snow Cone”.

While Google has not officially confirmed its internally specific dessert theme for Android 1

2, we learned this little treat 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 prefaced with “sc”. It’s an acronym for Snow Cone, by the way, much like how Android 11’s development branches were prefaced with “rvc” for “Red Velvet Cake.” (What is it, you say? “Sc” might as well be shortcake? That’s what we also thought, but checking notes it is not.)

Last year, Google published a fun AR statue that had a hidden recipe for making an Android 11-themed Red Velvet Cake. Maybe we’ll get some fun bindings and Easter eggs based on Android 12’s dessert name later this year?