Google's efforts to reduce help for Android fragmentation

Google seems to be fighting Android fragmentation and is deploying huge efforts to release up-to-date updates and operating system versions. The Android Authority's journalists calculated that there was a positive change in the effectiveness of the Treble project and in how long smartphone users had to wait on average for new updates on average .

The industry has examples of successful upgrade strategies. For example, Microsoft has been working with Windows for decades to keep computers up to date. Its Windows Update system provides almost immediately the next patches, as they are published by the programmers of the company. With Windows 10, the company was able to do even more: install twice a year new versions of the operating system so that it is almost invisible to users. And all this concerns tens of millions of computers with thousands of hardware configurations from dozens of manufacturers.

Google is in similar conditions, but the owners of most Android smartphones know that their device is doomed to run on the version of the operating system installed by the manufacturer. And we can expect small security tasks for months.

So that the situation with Android updates is not so bad, Google launched Project Treble a few years ago. It had to speed up the release of updates because Google had entrusted more software to Android, leaving the publishers of iron programs.

On average, key users of Keystream started receiving Android 7.0 Nougat after it was published on Google in 192 days. The release of Android 8.0 Oreo was a little faster on the flagship product – after 170 days. The current version of Android 9.0 Pie has come top of the main suppliers in 118 days. The analysis concerns Samsung Galaxy S, Huawei P, LG G, OnePlus, HTC, Sony Xperia X, Motorola Z Moto, Nokia, Xiaomi Mi.

S & P There is enough money for the flagship product, it is worth it Look in the middle of the Android One program. It imposes certain requirements on devices that want to obtain such marking, among other things, namely the publication of updates. For example, LG has already released Android 9.0 Pie for LG G7 One and users of the LG G7 ThinQ standard model are still waiting for the latest operating system. Similarly, the HTC U11 Life has already received Pie, even ahead of the flagship HTC U12 Plus.