Android developers: Time to make the Donuts

With Cupcake barely starting to cool, Google's Android team has started circulating the ingredients that will make up the Donut release of its Android mobile operating system.

Google is using sweet treats as code names for future Android releases, and Donut is next on the list, following the release of Cupcake in May.

According to several reports citing Android developers, including one from The Boy Genius Report, Donut code started making its way around the community of developers that work on Android this weekend. Among the notable additions are support for the CDMA networks used by Verizon Wireless and Sprint to the operating system, as well as new features like universal search.

At one point over the weekend, it was believed that Donut would usher in multitouch support for Android phones, but a Google developer shot down that rumor in a post to an Android forum, as spotted by InformationWeek.

Google's Andy Rubin, head of Android development at the company, has said Google expects to release about two Android releases a year. Developers do not expect Donut to surface as Android 2.0, however, even though Cupcake was labeled Android 1.5. That implies that Donut is being seen as an incremental release, adding a few features like search and a redesigned camera application but saving the big additions for another time.

[yipcanjo]

Bring it on, Google!

[wwwmaster2000]

Hey, Android system is designed for only the Wireless Phone types of devices or it will be used as base for the future Google's Chrome OS?

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[Rants&Raves]

Nope, for some reason Google has decided to create two distinct OSes for these use cases.

[t8]

Yes, one that hosts Web apps and the other a browser than runs everything from Chrome.

Makes sense to me. May not make sense to Microsoft, but they are so out of touch these days.

[ca5ter]

I eat donut holes every morning, boy am I going to get fat. Good thing I burn off calories by Twittering.

[Police_States_of_America]

this site says multitouch is supported http://techiesphere.com/2009/07/android-2-0-preview-highlights-multi-touch-support-and-other-enhancements/

[TyDiz]

Kind of...Its been noted by Cyanogen(the dev who's been diving in the code) that the new build does have it...but as it says in the article, its not going to be released with whatever build the Donut branch becomes responsible for. It will most likely be opened up to the ADP side of Android(which already has multitouch in some of their builds) but the casual user probably won't see it till way later.

[Maarek Stele]

Oh good, I was thinking that CDMA was going to be left out.

?Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?" - Homer Simpson