Google has begun requiring OEM hardware manufacturers to join this yearZoning design, so that the device can upgrade the Android operating system version at a faster rate in the future, thereby improving the version fragmentation problem.Qualcomm, also announced earlierIn-depth cooperation with Google, allowing hardware devices using Qualcomm processor products to obtain new versions of the Android operating system upgrades faster, and ensuring at least 4 version upgrades and up to 4 years of security updates.
The first processor product corresponding to this cooperation is the flagship processor recently announced.Snapdragon 888At the same time, this cooperation is also included in the Project Treble project proposed by Google, which is expected to enable more Android devices using Qualcomm processors to speed up version upgrades.
However, if we look at Google's previous plans, in addition to Qualcomm, it is expected to cooperate with processor manufacturers including Samsung and MediaTek to shorten the time required to update the operating systems of many Android devices.
According to previous statements, Google said that the reason why many Android devices have been unable to quickly obtain version upgrades is not only due to the differences in customized designs of OEM manufacturers and local service support of telecom operators, but more importantly, it is due to system-level issues involving the processor. Therefore, it previously proposed the Project Treble architecture design, which splits the Android operating system into different modules, allowing processor manufacturers, OEM manufacturers, and telecom operators to update their respective focus projects, and allowing Google to upgrade the core parts of the Android operating system on the device side, thereby speeding up version updates.
Even in the new version of Android 11, Google requires OEM hardware manufacturers to adopt a partitioned update design. At the same time, it also plans to allow more Android internal components to be split and updated, and allow the operating system core layer to be updated in the form of A/B blocks, so that the device can generally operate with the A block core layer, and at the same time, the B block core layer can be updated without affecting the execution and use. When the update is completed, the A block core layer can be directly replaced, thereby allowing the operating system version to be updated at a faster speed.
