Google’s Project Treble will allow OEMs to deliver faster Android updates

[rahul1117kumar]

Google is introducing a new tool dubbed as Project Treble, that might fix Android’s biggest problem. Google says the main aim of Project Treble is“re-architecting Android to make it easier, faster and less costly for manufacturers to update devices to a new version of Android.”

Google announced that starting with Android O, all devices will be coming with Project Treble. The company is calling this a “modular base for Android,” and says it is the biggest change to the low-level system architecture of the operating system to date. Google is introducing a new vendor interface between the Android OS framework and the vendor implementation. The new vendor interface is validated by a Vendor Test Suite (VTS), analogous to the CTS, to ensure forward compatibility of the vendor implementation.

Google’s Project Treble will allow OEMs to deliver faster Android updates

 

[Bapun]

This should help give Android phones the ability to receive Apple-like updates, at least on flagship phones. While the average Android flagship receives 2 major updates in a 24 month period, iPhone devices get a minimum of 4 years of iOS updates, including minor ones. On Treble-supported Android phones, this can eventually become a reality, assuming the phone manufacturer is down to update their phone. Those who want to keep their devices up to date during a similar time frame have no other option but to resort to custom ROMs.

Luckily, Project Treble should also make the grass greener for custom ROM users as well. In fact, it has the potential to change the custom ROM development scene completely – and for good.

What Project Treble Means for Future Custom ROM Development

 

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Going forward, all devices launching with Android 9 Pie or later will be Treble-compliant and take full advantage of the Treble architecture to deliver faster upgrades. Thanks to Treble, we expect to see more devices from OEMs running Android 9 Pie at the end of 2018 as compared to the number of devices that were running Android Oreo at the end of 2017.

Android Developers Blog: An Update on Project Treble