Google Android M stands for Marshmallow

Google Android M stands for Marshmallow
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Google Android M stands for Marshmallow. The suspense over Android M is now over and Google has revealed that the M stands for Marshmallow. Google has now introduced the official Android 6.0 SDK (Software Developer Kit) and the Play Store will be open for developers to publish apps that target the new API level 23 in Android Marshmallow.

The suspense over Android M is now over and Google has revealed that the M stands for Marshmallow. Google has now introduced the official Android 6.0 SDK (Software Developer Kit) and the Play Store will be open for developers to publish apps that target the new API level 23 in Android Marshmallow.

The company revealed the name on its developers blog and alongside also revealed the finalAndroid 6.0 SDK that will be available for download via the SDK Manager in Android Studio. It will bring access to final Android APIs and latest build tools.

“Today with the final Developer Preview update, we’re introducing the official Android 6.0 SDK and opening Google Play for publishing your apps that target the new API level 23 in Android Marshmallow,” Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android writes in a blogpost.

Marshmallow brings new platform features such as fingerprint scanner and Doze power saving mode, but along with that also offers new permissions model. Google Play is also made ready to accept API 23 apps via the Google Play Developer Console.

At the consumer launch later this year, the Google Play store will be updated so that the app install and update process supports the new permissions model for apps using API 23. “Classes for detecting and parsing bar codes are available in the com.google.android.gms.vision.barcode namespace.

The BarcodeDetector class is the main workhorse — processing Frame objects to return a SparseArray<Barcode> types,” he further adds. Google has also revaled its new lawn statue similar to the droid seen above.

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