Mishaal Rahman: The Tensor G3 is the first smartphone SoC to support hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. It supports AV1 encoding at up to 4K60. (androiddev.social)
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Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward. (androiddev.social)
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Mishaal Rahman: Android's Virtualization Framework seems to be getting GPU support. (androiddev.social)
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Mishaal Rahman: The Google Play Store is A/B testing a new feature that uses AI to generate "App Highlights". (androiddev.social)
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Mishaal Rahman: The Google Play Store is A/B testing a new "App FAQs" section that gives you AI-generated answers to frequently asked questions. (androiddev.social)
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Mishaal Rahman: Google seems to be quietly rolling out a new security feature on Android: scanning for deceptive apps. (androiddev.social)
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Google may be planning to ship a major kernel upgrade to all its (Tensor-powered) pixel phones. (androiddev.social)
Good news for android overall. Hopefully, this could be extended to other OEMs by 2025 and not be optional like virtual A&Bs when it arrives....
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