Key Lime Pie

What Does Key Lime Pie Mean?

Key lime pie is the code name given to one of the operating systems in the Android mobile OS series. It was the dessert themed code name given to the Android v 5.0. However, as of September 2013, the code name Key lime pie was replaced with the name KitKat.

Techopedia Explains Key Lime Pie

Key lime pie was initially intended to name the Android 4.4 as a successor to Android Jelly Bean 4.2. Key lime pie is designed specifically to run seamlessly on mobile platforms having lesser computing resources (Processor / Memory). This is done through implementing a code base and operational architecture from the Linux 3.8 kernel, which is much lighter on hardware resources.

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Margaret Rouse

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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