An official app for the 2019 Android Dev Summit interestingly mentioned “Android 11”, making the first official reference for the next main version of the world’s most popular mobile operating system, according to 9to5google.
The 2019 Android Dev Summit kicks off later this month and Google posted the full conference schedule on Wednesday. One session at the two-day event is titled “Preparing for Scoped Storage in Android 11.”
Google looks to have tried to obscure this official Android 11 reference, with the full session details only appearing on the Android client, and not the web version, the 9to5google report noted.
Following the switch to the naming scheme in late August and launch of Android 10 last month, this is the first official indication of the next major release.
The name and numbering is clearly not surprising, but it does show how Google will be adopting “Android 11” right out of the gate instead of using a codename when it talks about the OS in public and with developers pre-launch, the report said.
In AOSP, we’ve already spotted references to Android R from Googlers, with the company confirming before that internal codenames will remain in use during their development cycle.
