Return Android OS name

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I was wondering how I could go about returning the name of the Android OS version (i.e. KitKat, JellyBean, etc) programatically. I'm able to find just about everything about the OS except the "codename", if you will. Any help is welcome, thanks.

Do you know how to get the VERSION_CODE? If so a quick switch statement will give you the code name. Not sure if this is easily available in the API directly. — Code-Apprentice, Jun 29 '14 at 23:33
@Code-Apprentice - Yes I am able to get the version code, but I wanted to avoid mapping version codes to codenames myself if there was a simpler way to go about it. Gergo, I looked at a lot of SO questions, and probably came across that one, but I was curios if there was a more straightforward answer. Anyway, what I'll do it just make an array with code names and map the version codes to the array. Thanks for the input guys. — ArmaAK, Jun 29 '14 at 23:43

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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I played around with an answer from the suggested question, found here, and came up with this one liner that returns the "codename" of the currently running OS version:

Build.VERSION_CODES.class.getFields()[android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT].getName();

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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This sometimes returns the incorrect software version. – Timothy Miller Jan 28 '18 at 20:30
Android 8.1 yields: O_MR1. Not exactly "Oreo" – Dave Nottage Apr 10 '18 at 21:48
Build.VERSION_CODES.class.getFields()[26].getName() gives N_MR1, is one version off – lannyf Mar 25 '21 at 15:43
Gives error in android 11 - java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=31; index=31 – Himani Jun 28 '21 at 09:31

Return Android OS name

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