[2][3] Google's Android is the fastest selling mobile operating system as of late 2010[4][needs update] and was developed as a partnership with the Open Handset Alliance, with version 1.0 being released on September 23, 2008.

There was initially a plan to use famous robot names in alphabetical order, and some early interim revisions have been tagged "Astro Boy" and "Bender".

Google stopped making physical statues after Android 10, which also was the first release that no longer used dessert theme names externally.

[1][13] Starting from Android 11, Google continued the tradition by releasing "statues" as 3D objects viewable online.

[13] The statue for Android 13, codenamed "Tiramisu" internally, was made in both physical and virtual formats.

This prompted Android engineer Dan Morrill to post on Google+: "Jelly Bean is so ridiculously hot that the JB statue overheated, and his head partially melted and popped off.