What is the name of the Android robot? Origin and curiosity

The favorite pet of mobile device lovers, the Android robot, has a name. In addition to this, there are many curiosities surrounding the origin of the most used software in the mobile market.

What kind of software is Android?

Android is software of the type "mobile operating system" or mobile operating system. This means that it works similar to a computer's operating system.

Android works bridge between applications and hardware of touch devices mainly oriented to the reproduction of multimedia contents. This mobile operating system works in layers, these are responsible for specific functions, described below:

• Core o Kernel: it is based on Linux and is the "closest" level to the hardware. This is responsible for organizing and manipulating the phone's component controllers (camera, memory, battery, Bluetooth and screen).
• Basic library: this is the level immediately above the kernel. It contains the various commands (in JAVA language) to be used for the operation of the operating system. This set of commands is compiled in a system called ART and compiled when the system is flashed into the phone's memory.
• Application libraries: here is the rest of the C ++ based and standard C libraries where the commands needed by applications to perform the functions will be stored. Among these: 3D graphics, calculation of mathematical operations, reproduction of supports etc ...
• Application framework: this level can be thought of as the place where applications work. It is usually here that the application developers apply the settings and add the famous "Updates", the versions are the different revisions of the same.
• Applications: this is the closest level to the end user and is the last level of the Android architecture. It contains application clients, all of which run via the "Launcher" or "Launch" system.

This boot system is another application that runs automatically when the device is turned on and is the one that serves as the user-application interface. It serves as the application directory and normally runs on other applications, with the highest priority for user commands.

What is the reason why it is called Android?

Android Inc. It was a company created in 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Chris White and Nick Sears, whose purpose was create a Linux-based mobile operating system.

The company name comes from Andy Rubin's (former Apple engineer) love of robotics. This led to his Apple colleagues a sopranoname it Android.

However, the name ended up being a reference to the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? at Philip K. Dick.

What is the name of the Android mascot?

The OS mascot was designed by Irina Block who was asked to make a robot-shaped design. The design of the green robot has wowed Google engineers so much that it is Andy Rubin himself nicknamed him "Andy".

There are suspicions that the design was so popular due to its resemblance to the game's character " Gauntled: The Third Encounter »Which is called Android that many engineers were fans of.

The rest of the engineers nicknamed the robot "Bugdroid" due to its resemblance to an insect and the number of bugs that tend to show up with each version of Android during its development.

In any case, Google did not state an official name for his pet, since his OS is open source and so is the design of the robot.

Why are their versions named after desserts?

The names of the sweets have been given for all versions after Android 1.5 (Cupcake) since in the words of its developers «the smartphones have come to sweeten our lives ". The following versions have been designated alphabetically as:

• Android 1.6 Donut
• Eclair Android 2
• Froyo Android 2.2
• gingerbread Android 2.3
• Android 3.0a Honeycomb
• Sandwich gelato Android 4.0
• Jelly Bean Android 4.1
• KitKat Android 4.4
• Lollipop Android 5
• marshmallow Android 6
• Torrone Android 7
• Oreo Android 8
• Android 9 Floor

After that, in 2019 Google will stop using dessert classification by simply using the Android 10 name. However, it has been designated an unofficial emergency name calling this version Queen Cake or Fifteen Tart.

The current version of Android 11 continues to be internally called Red Velvet Cake and the next Android 12 to be released at the end of 2021 it could be called Snow Cone. What cake for the letter "T" will Android 13 bring us?