naming scheme for public releases, starting with Android 1.5 Cupcake in 2009. Google announced in August 2019 that they were ending the confectionery theming scheme and would use numerical ordering for future versions. The first release under the numerical order format was Android 10, which was released in September 2019.

In 2017, Google announced Google Play would begin to require apps to target the newest Android version (or API level). Since then, apps must target