This is How Google Plans to Roll Out New Android Versions Faster

Android updates never roll out on time, but this is hopefully set to change with Google’s Project Treble.

Android updates – unlike those of its rival iOS – never roll out on time, something which has been most Android users’ biggest complaint. So, to change this once and for all, Google has decided it’s time to speed things up and deliver new Android versions much faster than before.

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With this in mind, the tech giant has announced Project Treble, which will hopefully fulfil your wish for quick-time Android updates and match Apple’s snappy iOS roll-outs.

With Project Treble, we’re re-architecturing Android to make it easier, faster and less costly for manufacturers to update devices to a new version of Android.

Android Developer Blog

But how soon can you now expect Android version updates, you ask? Well, Google has some good news for you. Its developer blog post states that Project Treble will be coming to all new devices running on Android O (it still doesn’t have a name) and beyond.

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In addition to that, you’d be pleased to know that this architecture is already running on the Developer Preview of O for Pixel phones. Try it out, if you have one.

Till date, the Android version release chain has been a complex one, which, as Google admits, costs its partners like Samsung and LG a lot.

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With a stable vendor interface providing access to the hardware-specific parts of Android, device makers can choose to deliver a new Android release to consumers by just updating the Android OS framework without any additional work required from the silicon manufacturers.

Android Developer Blog

Simply put, with Project Treble, the folks at Samsung, Xiaomi and other Android partners can deliver the next Android update to their users by just updating the Android OS framework (ie the bare bones of the OS). This gives them more time to work on the design of their respective user interfaces and roll them out to users quickly.

Well, we’ve heard a lot of stuff from Google before, but not all of it has worked as promised. But for Android’s sake, we really hope that Project Treble not only takes off, but also succeeds in fixing what’s been lacking in the OS all these years.