Google company on the end of the practice of assigning the names of sweets and desserts in alphabetical order to the releases of the Android platform and the transition to the usual digital numbering. The previous scheme was borrowed from the practice of naming internal branches used by Google engineers, but caused a lot of confusion among users and third-party developers. Thus, the currently developed edition is now officially named Android 10 and the next release will initially be promoted as Android 10.1 or Android 11.
The announcement also notes that the next milestone of popularity has been overcome - Android is now used on more than 2.5 billion active devices. At the same time, an updated project logo is presented, in which instead of the full image of the robot, only its head is used, and the text is displayed in a different font and in black instead of green.
Other changes related to the Android project include integrated development environment , built on the basis of the source code of the product . The Android Studio project is developed under an open development model and licensed under Apache 2.0. Binary assemblies for Linux, macOS and Windows. Support for all current versions of Android and Google Play services is provided. The key innovation of the new version is the implementation of the Marble project, which shifts the vector of development from increasing functionality towards improving the quality of the workflow, increasing stability and honing existing features.
Over 600 bugs, 50 memory leaks, and 20 hang issues have been fixed in preparation for the new release, as well as work to improve build speed and editor responsiveness when entering XML markup and Kotlin code. The organization of the process of launching the developed application on the device has been completely redesigned - instead of the "Instant Run" mode, the "Apply Changes" function is introduced, which, instead of changing the APK package, uses a separate runtume to redefine classes on the fly, which makes the process of launching the application much more comfortable in the process of making changes into code.
Source: opennet.ru