Android Q is officially named Android 10

Google has announced that Android Q will now come with an all-new, rather boring name: Android 10. This bucks the trend of Android operating systems being named after sweet foods, and marks a change in the naming direction going forward.

In fact, the moniker Android ‘Q’ seems like it’s been dropped altogether, which signals the next operating system won’t be Android R, which Google puts down to consumer choice “we’ve heard feedback over the years that the names weren’t always understood by everyone in the global community”.

It’s true that ‘Android 10’ is a lot more easy to interpret as the tenth iteration of Android than ‘Android Q’, and the change is obviously done as Android becomes a ubiquitous operating system in many regions around the world.

The Android 10 naming change brings with it an aesthetic change to Android’s branding, putting the Android mascot front and center (well, slightly to the right), and introducing a more green-centric color scheme too.

Along with news of the official name of Android 10 comes the first wave of confirmations as to what devices it’ll run on. We’ve heard from Nokia that the Nokia 9 PureView, Nokia 8.1 and Nokia 7.1 will all be compatible when Nokia 10 releases, and many other phones in the company’s stable will upgrade over the first half of 2020.

We’d expect many other companies have similar announcements in the works, and will update this story when we hear more.