Thursday, 11 June 2015
Google's Internal Code Name For Android M Is Macadamia Nut Cookie (MNC)
Google will be unveiling the successor to Lollipop at Google I/O in just a few days, but we won't get a real name. It will likely just be called Android M until it's released, but Google has an internal code name just as it did for L and K. It's called Macadamia Nut Cookie (MNC), a name which is already being referenced in AOSP.
Confidence Level
Our confidence on the internal name is a 10—this is real. I don't know if that contradicts the above disclaimer, but we're pretty sure. It's mentioned in AOSP, and Googlers are using it. The code name won't matter to you personally because it's probably going to be changed upon release. It's just for fun.
The Rumor
There have been whispers about the MNC name for a while now, but only recently has it started popping up in AOSP as "mnc-dev." We've been told this stands for Macadamia Nut Cookie, but that doesn't really matter so much. We'll probably never see an OS version that uses this name. In the past, Google has used both LMP (Lemon Meringue Pie) and KLP (Key Lime Pie) as internal code names for upcoming versions of Android (ex. lmp-preview-release in AOSP). Those names were abandoned for the official Lollipop and KitKat upon release. We have every reason to think the same will be true for MNC, but in the meantime you can see a few places in AOSP where mnc-dev is mentioned (here and here).
This might provide some clues as to what's happening with Android M going forward. Don't expect Google to acknowledge this name in public, though.
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