Project Mainline updates all Android phones thousands of times a year.
On 2023-09-02 11:56, Wally J wrote:
Project Mainline updates all Android phones thousands of times a year.
You mean "all Android phones with at least Android 10 on them"...
...don't you, Arlen?
Project Mainline updates all Android phones thousands of times a year.
No matter who makes the phone or whether they support it any longer.
The carrier doesn't matter either - you just need to be on the Internet.
Read one of those links, please, and comprehend it - before responding.
<https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system>
<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222>
<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201224>
<https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/about-software-updates-depc4c80847a/>
<https://venturebeat.com/business/google-details-project-mainline-updating-android-modules-via-google-play/>
<https://www.androidauthority.com/google-project-mainline-984001/>
<https://www.androidcentral.com/project-mainline>
<https://www.androidpolice.com/project-mainline-android-14/>
<https://www.droidviews.com/googles-project-mainline/>
<https://www.droidviews.com/googles-project-mainline/>
<https://www.esper.io/blog/what-is-project-mainline>
<https://www.hexnode.com/blogs/android-project-mainline-everything-you-need-to-know/>
<https://www.howtogeek.com/413714/what-is-androids-project-mainline-and-when-will-my-phone-get-it/>
<https://www.realmicentral.com/2022/02/11/project-mainline-grows-with-android-13-more-updates-go-through-google-play/>
<https://www.xda-developers.com/android-project-mainline-modules-explanation/>
<https://www.xda-developers.com/google-android-runtime-art-mainline-module-android-12/>
Every release adds more modules to these daily operating system updates.
It may become the entire operating system, at some future point in time.
You mean "all Android phones with at least Android 10 on them"...
'thousands of times a year' is plural, thus it would be at least 2000 updates.
2000 updates a year is at least 6 updates *per* *day*, every day (2190).
That's almost ten thousand updates a year,
That's almost ten thousand updates a year,
that would be ~27 updates a day, or more than one per hour.
Alas, phone makers customize the Android code they receive from Google
to adapt the OS to the hardware on their phone, add their own features,
and bundle their own apps all as part of branding the OS to the phone
maker.
For example, I have an LG V20 smartphone. Came out in 2019. LG
dropped support back in 2019, so no more OS updates thereafter.
LG then
left the smartphone market, so definitely no custom Android OS updates
for my phone.
If I were to force an update to a non-customize (generic)
version of Android from Google, likely it would not properly support the hardware for my ancient phone, or expect hardware that wasn't there.
Why, in your URL list, are there links to Apple articles? This is a newsgroup about Android, and your Subject says "Android", yet you
include URLs pointing to Apple products (iOS).
The modularization that Google changed for Android 10 was to make it
easier for phone makers to customize their brand of Android. They don't
have to modify Google's code, and then alpha test, but can add their own modules. So, it seems your links are valid for Android 10 (Q), and
later. That was touched by the first URL you gave, and the next Android
URL after skipping past your URLs to Apple.
There are lots of users still back on Android 9, or earlier. I'm back
on Android 8.0 since the phone maker dropped my phone, and later left
the phone market. Almost 20% of the Android market share is still using pre-10 Android. Not everyone discards their phone just because a new OS version shows up. The last time I discarded a phone was because the
carriers decided to drop 2G; else, I'd still have my old dumb Moto Razr flip-phone in my pocket when doing construction, yardwork, or other
physical activity where I don't want to imperil my far more expensive
later smartphone.
Too late to update your Subject to say "all Android 10+ phones".
Mainline was announced back in 2019 along with the Sept 2019 release of Android 10. That it was coming was announced, as I recall, about 2
years prior to give time for phone makers to prepare. You're 4 years
late. Guess it's something you just found out about.
VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote
Alas, phone makers customize the Android code they receive from Google
to adapt the OS to the hardware on their phone, add their own features,
and bundle their own apps all as part of branding the OS to the phone
maker.
We're all here to learn from each other
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