The Android 15 source code will be released next week, according to multiple sources. Here's what that means for users and developers.

This code snippet retrieves the Android version and SDK level, which can be useful for developing apps that need to be compatible with different versions of Android.

But for the launch of Android 10 in 2019, Google took a step back from this association, instead embracing the numerical version as the preferred way to talk about Android.

Android 16 will be called Baklava, internally The name for the next Android version was scooped from the code references within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code.

Google may be planning to release Android 16 in Q2 of 2025, which is unusual since major Android versions typically arrive in Q3 or Q4.