Android KitKat 4.4 is the next version of Google's mobile operating system

The next version of Google Android will be called "KitKat," not "Key Lime Pie," as was widely rumored.

Google's Sundar Pichai, head of both Android and Chrome, has confirmed that the next version of Android will be called KitKat. Yes, you've read correctly, KitKat, as in the trademarked name of the chocolate candy bar made by Nestle (and licensed by Hershey in the US). A splash page for the new operating system reveals that KitKat will be the codename for Android 4.4, not the long-rumored Android 5.0. The name keeps the company's long-standing tradition of naming each version of its mobile operating system after desserts.

To date, Google has internally referred to the release as Key Lime Pie, but the company decided to go for another name after realizing that "very few people actually know the taste of a key lime pie," director of Android partnerships John Lagerling tells the BBC. 

Late last year, someone suggested naming the upcoming version KitKat   apparently a favorite snack of

Android coders — and the company "decided to reach out to the Nestle folks." Within 24 hours an agreement was made, though it's apparently "not a money-changing-hands kind of deal," according to Lagerling.

By tradition, Google always names an Android version based on yummy desserts - Cupcake (1.5), Donut (1.6), Éclair (2.0), Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3), Honeycomb (3.0), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), Jelly Bean (4.1-4.3) and KitKat (4.4).  Click here to see it.

Click here and KitKat is here.

Video of unveiling KitKat statue in google campus


Official Android KitKat 4.4 video