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Android 12 Now Available From The Android Open-Source Project
The Android 12 sources have been pushed out to AOSP in officially releasing this newest version of Android. Android 12 features a new user-interface with redesigned widgets and other graphical enhancements, more efficient system performance, more responsive notifications, faster machine learning performance, various privacy enhancements, AVIF image support, a variety of new developer APIs, and many other enhancements throughout the mobile stack.
Android Developers Blog and Ars Technica.
Also at Wccftech.
See also: Android 12 review: it's mostly about the looks
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 05 2021, @05:58PM (2 children)
link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/android-to-take-an-upstream-first-development-model-for-the-linux-kernel/ [arstechnica.com]
"Android's kernel fragmentation is a huge mess, and you can imagine how long and difficult the road is for a bugfix at the top of the fork tree to reach to the bottom, where end-users live. The official Android.com documentation notes that "These modifications can be extensive, to the point that as much as 50% of the code running on a device is out-of-tree code (not from upstream Linux or from AOSP common kernels)." It's also a big time sink, and even Google phones typically ship kernels that start at two years old."
"They're lov'in it(tm)" also known as "how to engineer hardware device obsolesce". last fun fact: it's all ARM based, eh? nVidia gonna take away the cookie? green landfill monster sayZ: "cookie monster want cookie!" :)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 05 2021, @06:06PM (1 child)
Here's the alternative. [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @12:49PM
doubtful. the ARM CPU hardware is not uniform enough and/or gets "modified" soo much by a CPU manufacturer that a stock vanilla kernel will not work.
the stock vanilla for ARM linux kernel, one assumes, should work, if the CPU is ARM ... nope.
for samsung and qualcom, the (ARM) vanilla linux kernel is just a "framework" which the modify so it in essence becomes a "CPU driver made by the CPU vendor", like any other computer hardware "driver", like webcam, soundcard, scanner etc?
ARM derives 95% $$$ from mobile phone manufacturers. 95% of mobile is also android, which is managed by google ... the linux kernel is free. google and arm cpu manufacturers make billions off the back of a free open-source project whilst at the same time SHAFTING the idea of that opensource project?
*shrug* i guess i don't understand it or it doesn't matter ... unupdateable security cert? media player framework (stagefright?) bugs? project "blackhole" deep cover operation from area56i that brainstorm "fear" and "protection from the law" to guarantee ARM hardware is thrown away because of software not faulty hardware. also they research perfume to mask the unbelievable fishy stink emanating from google, qualcom and samsung :)