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Google’s efforts in making updates faster have paid off, Android 10 fastest adopted update

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Enrique 10 July 2020

Google Android Firmware updates

We’ve all heard the argument that Apple iPhones update quickly because Apple controls both hardware and software. With the hundreds of unique devices that run Android, its very difficult to have this same speed and effectiveness of major updates – not to mention, the vast differences of software that OEMs offer. Google has been able to push many updates through Google Play Services, even if devices are no longer receiving major OS updates.

In a Google Developers Blog post, it’s revealed that Android 10 was the quickest adopted Android version ever. Of course, it didn’t happen overnight. Google gradually introduced new practices over the past few years to speed up the update process for OEMs while also testing newer version of Android much earlier through Developer and Public Beta programs for Google Pixels, and other OEMs.

Google’s efforts in making Android updates faster have paid off, Android 10 fastest adopted update

In Android Oreo, Google introduced Project Treble, which modulated the core Android OS seperate from OEMs skin customizations. This sped up Android Pie adoption by 2.5X compared to Oreo. Every smartphone that came with Android Oreo was compliant with Treble.

Then with Android Pie, Google launched a Developer Preview program with other OEMs so that pre-Beta builds could be tested across more smartphone models prior to release. This sped up Android 10 adoption by 1.5X compared to Pie.

With Android 10, Google’s Project Mainline made it possible to update critical apps and elements of Android via Google Play. This is what Google used to update 2 billion devices with the Exposure Notification API that was developed for contact-tracing COVID-19.

Google Pixel 4 XL running Android 10 Google Pixel 4 XL running Android 10

Android 11 has 7 OEMs participating in its Developer Preview program with a variety of hardware for testing. Seamless Updates were introduced in Nougat and has been a bit slow to adopt since it requires double the amount of storage reserved for the OS. Updates would install in the background on a separate OS partition and applied at the next reboot. A new form of this is called “Virtual A/B” which does the same thing while requiring less storage to be reserved for the OS. Google will require OEMSs to implement Virtual A/B with devices running Android 11 to make “OTA updates as frictionless as possible”.

is currently on its second Public Beta build after a full round of Developer Preview builds. As per Google’s own Smart Home presenter, Android 11 should be ready for official rollout on September 8.

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  • Bogdan
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  • 12 Jul 2020

Exactly, this is the problem with Android. One company is making the operating system, another company is making the chipsets and in the end the manufacturer company needs to figure it out how to put them all together without issues for the end user....

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  • Bogdan
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  • 12 Jul 2020

Lol. When will my Android phone be updated to new operating system? Never. But.. Never. Ok, it's good this way too. Who needs software updates anyway? Life of an Android user. Especially mid-range and low-end devices. Been ther...

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  • Dataminer49er
  • 7x9
  • 11 Jul 2020

This bodes well for companies like Nokia and Samsung, but is meaningless to others like LG who are unable to keep updates flowing.

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