Android O name | Android O release date rumours

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Android O name | Android O release date rumours

Android O is coming later this year, but will it be Android Oreo, Android Orange or our personal favourite Android Oh! Henry? Here's what we know so far about the next Android OS. We round up the Android O name and release date rumours.

The final version of Android N was released in August 2016 as Android Nougat, and we're looking at a similar time frame in 2017 for the release of Android O, which will most likely be announced at Google I/O on 17 May. But what will Android O be called? We round up the Android O name and release date rumours.

As we look ahead to Android O, there are still new features and fixes coming to Android Nougat. In late-January Google made available a beta version of Android Nougat 7.1.2, which it says is "an incremental maintenance release focused on refinements, so it includes a number of bug fixes and optimizations, along with a small number of enhancements for carriers and users".

Android O: What will the next Android be called?

Following Android Alpha and Android Beta, Google has always named its Android OS updates after sweet treats, and in alphabetical order. So far we've had Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow and Nougat.

In 2017 Google will be looking for a sweet treat beginning with O. Trouble is, there really aren't that many. The Tech Advisorteam could come up with Oreo, Orange, Oatcake and Oh! Henry (the latter obviously being our favourite, given this). It could even shake things up entirely and shock us all with something like Android OMG. (We're joking, but we kind of like it.)

Google's Hiroshi Lockheimer has been stirring things up on Twitter, seemingly suggesting Android Oreo is the most likely candidate. But is he pulling our leg? Quite possibly, given he has also tweeted an image of Pocky (chocolate cream covered biscuit sticks) with the caption #2018.

Trouble is, there are few sweet treats we can think of beginning with an O, so it could well be Android Oreo as rumoured.

What do you think the next version of Android will be called? (If you choose Other comment below and let us know what you think.)