Even though Android O was unveiled in March this year, Google only highlighted many of its features at I/O in May later on. The new Android version is currently in its third developer preview, and the naming of ‘O’ still seems a mystery, however, predictions and leaks on what it could be, have already started to surface online.
Internal source code has revealed (first spotted by Myce) that Android O could be called the ‘Android Oatmeal Cookie’. Evidence was found in Android’s source code where mentions of ‘oc-dev’ have cropped up on several occasions. This ‘oc-dev’ codename could stand for oatmeal cookie. We make this presumption, as the word ‘oatmeal cookie’ cropped up at Google I/O as well, in one of the slide presentations in May.
These findings may create strong evidence, but knowing Google, Android 8.0 something completely different. Android O is also largely rumoured to be called Android Oreo, and this could be highly possible if Google partners with the company to do a cross-promotion of sorts, something that we saw with Android KitKat.
