News & Reviews:   Android 11 preview

It wasn't all that long ago when Google used codenames for its Android versions instead of numbers, tasty codenames too. For example, Android 8 was Oreo and Android 9 was named Pie. The company dropped the tradition with Android 10, though internally there was a codename for it. Now, a new interview has revealed the codename for Android 11 as well.

Turns out Android 11 was on the horizon after all, at least for developers. A preview page appeared a few days ago before being removed, but now Google has confirmed that the first Android 11 preview is available. With the new Android version comes a few features that we want to look at.

It seems that someone at Google had a trigger finger on the post button today. Keen eyes spotted the developer preview page updated from Android 10 to Android 11 earlier, suggesting that Google may already be on the verge of releasing a beta for the next Android version to developers.