The Weekly Marshmallow

Android Pie's logo, The ninth version of Android. The other 8 versions. So, Android P is finally out, with the name being Pie. I honestly thought it would be Popsicle, but whatever. But now, with Google's "Alphabetical Order Sweets" names for each version, It makes it really hard to pick one for Android Q. Heck, for Android N they had to get help from the internet to pick Nougat. Also the naming for these versions made me name the The Weekly Marshmallow seasons how they are. So in this post, we'll be looking at what I can come up with for Q. Next year I guess I'll have to do one for R, but not now. But anyway, here we go. Quiche Quiche is probably the first thing you think of when you think of food that starts with Q. That means it could be a nice idea for Android Q, right? Not exactly. You see, Google names them after Sweets and not normal food, which could be a problem for Quiche. The food usually is filled with cheese and bacon, but desert v...

The first 3 official versions. A few days ago, I teased a Android Retrospective. I was getting tired of waiting and decided to make it right now. Happy early Thanksgiving, and The Weekly Marshmallow presents: Part One of the Android Retrospective. In this part, we will look at the founding of Android, some early years, and the first 3 versions. So let's look at Android's first few sweets. Early Years Founding Android Incorporated was founded in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. Rubin described the Android product as having "Tremendous potential" At this time, it wasn't owned by Google. The company's early products  were to develop a advanced operating system for cameras. This was the pitch to investors in April 2004. Soon after that, the company decided that the market for cameras was too small for it's goals, and 5 months later they changed it's efforts to making a handset operating system to rival Symbian a...