I think the android.com homepage clinches it: "We’re naming the next version of ...

unreal37 · on Sept 3, 2013

I like it. Thumbs up to Google for the name.

likeclockwork · on Sept 3, 2013

I see that now, but when I first looked I thought somehow I had been tricked!

brokenparser · on Sept 3, 2013

I'm okay with this.

Android Lion

Android Mars

Android Nuts

Android Oreo

Android Peppermint Crisp

They'll have to introduce their own brand of chocolate after that.

fpgeek · on Sept 4, 2013

I think Android Quik would be next (and perhaps likely if KitKat goes well given the Nestle connection and the scarcity of "Q" dessert names).

brokenparser · on Sept 4, 2013

It's called Nesquik.

fpgeek · on Sept 4, 2013

And another tiny bit of my childhood dies... :(

unconed · on Sept 3, 2013

None of those things contain enough cocoa to deserve the name "chocolate".

brokenparser · on Sept 3, 2013

Honeycomb

lake99 · on Sept 3, 2013

Or they could call it Android Quick Bread.

corresation · on Sept 3, 2013

People have criticized Android codenames for the history of those codenames. Jellybean? Froyo? Eclaire? Donut? How are those better than KitKat?

I don't see anything, whatsoever, embarrassing about it. It sounds like they're having a bit of fun with it, and why not?

aroman · on Sept 3, 2013

I guess because it's a bit like they're selling out, even though the BBC article a bunch of people have linked here says otherwise.

But really, imagine if Apple called OS X 10.10 "Pepsi" and you got a free upgrade with every Pepsi you bought. It just feels… I dunno, it feels kinda corporate and sketchy to me, and I think others as well.

I don't really have a problem with it though.