While everybody is anxiously waiting for Google to hit us with new tech, software and the like at Google I/O this year, we’ve been hoping to hear about the next version of our favorite OS. Signs have pointed to Key Lime Pie being the next version and rumors show it to be Android 5.x.x. Even though it’s safe to expect Google to show off a new flavor of Android at the conference this year, another rumor suggests that KLP won’t be ready for prime time by then. Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but new information discovered by Artem Russakovskii of Android Police may add some weight to the latter of the two rumors.
One of their readers tipped them off and Artem did some digging and found that Google is working on Android 4.3. Specifically they’re working on build JWR23B. As Google’s build’s first letter correlates with the version of Android it is, we can see that it’s Jelly Bean. This may disappoint a lot of you, but considering that Jelly Bean is only on roughly 25% of devices in one flavor or another, this will help give OEM’s some wiggle room with updates. If Key Lime Pie is going to be a major revision change like it’s being suggested Google may even need some more time to work out the kinks. Of course a lot of this is speculation. This also adds some weight though, to what Google said last year at I/O 2012 about slowing down the release of major revision to Android to help OEMs.
The fact is, Android 4.3 is in the works and Google doesn’t assign version numbers until a release is imminent. That being said, it’s probable that this is what we’re going to see here in a few weeks at I/O. Even so, the jump from 4.0 to 4.1 brought some nice features to Android as did the jump from 4.1 to 4.2 (although it introduced some bugs as well). It will be interesting to see what Google is cooking up and hopefully even with it being an incremental update we’ll see some new stuff, like Babel. Hint, hint.
source: Android Police
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