Nov 18, 2018

Android's Project Treble

What is Project Treble on Android upgrade?

Android Project Treble

Project Treble is started by Google. The project is all about providing the latest Android version updates to the users. 
Every time when a new Android version came, phone makers had to wait for the chipset vendors like Qualcomm and MediaTek to update the areas of the code of internal hardware. 

Making it possible to provide android updates to the users is really a hot mess for the smartphone companies. Because of the Project Treble, all the hardware specific component now exists as a crust, whenever a new Android releases, the phone maker can now only focus on the process to roll out. 

Android 8.O Oreo released with the integrated Project Treble in 2017. However, the Android 9 Pie software is complete and operational with chipset vendors ready to support a number of treble ready devices.

Android Project Treble

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What is the necessity of Project Treble?

Since the very beginning, Android updates have been a major headache for the phone-makers. Apart from the pixel line of Google, no other Android device maker provides consistently and reliably software updates.

It's the user who devoid not only from the latest feature and interface of Google but also from the latest privacy, security and enhancements feature.

We can see the condition of android updates from a survey conducted by Digital Trends- "only 19 percent of active Android devices have android 8.0 Oreo operating system." And that's why Project Treble came-to cut some of the time and cost associated with the process of OS update so that user can get the latest software more quickly.

Project's impact:

As the project came out with android oreo, there are some handsets which got the android P beta update before the official release-Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, Nokia 7 Plus, Oppo R15 Pro, Vivo X21, OnePlus 6, and Essential PH‑1, Google Pixel, and Google Pixel 2.

Conclusion:

For instance, On one side a company like Samsung which makes major modification to the Android software with its own custom interface and add-on features and on the other hand , a company like Motorola which sticks to stock android or apply minor tweaks- so as practical, it should take less effort and time for Motorola to process and deliver each new update. To make project treble a successful move for Google, companies should try to stick to the stock android utmost, for user reliability.

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