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SpaceNoodle, to android in 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.

Not just seamless, but safer updates as well. A failed boot from the newly updated partition(s) can be detected with the malfunctioning slot flagged by the lower-level bootloader, allowing for an instantaneous rollback.

possiblylinux127,

This could break devices that are older

db2,

Older devices wont break unless you force install without creating the necessary filesystem partition layout first. Depending on how you define older that might only be a small hurdle. If you define it as a device designed for Android 4 you’re likely gonna have a bad time.

SpaceNoodle,

TBF it’s a major PITA to redo the partition table like this, if even at all possible given the extant layout. This was introduced with Nougat, though, with major chip vendors like Qualcomm ready with support in their BSPs right out of the gate back in 2016. I think eight years is enough time to let everyone get themselves up to speed.

AbidanYre,

How many devices are that old but still getting updates?

My 6 year old OP6 has A/B partitions.

aniki, to android in Mishaal Rahman: Android's Virtualization Framework seems to be getting GPU support.

has anyone successfully gotten an x86 android emulator to run? I tried to setup Waydroid a while ago but it never loaded.

[e] oops – this is for emulation ON Android not OF Android.

aluminium,

There are videos of people playing old ges on Box64 / Box32 with winlator… so I guess yes.

singularity,

Yes, I’ve set up Waydroid and it works quite well out of the box.

YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU,

I’ve got waydroid working in xwayland

limerod, to android in 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.

Good. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.

gaylord_fartmaster,

My last couple phones have been Samsungs (need MDM support for work) and I had no idea this even existed, let alone that everyone else has it already.

iturnedintoanewt,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it’s been a while.

Lojcs,

I have a feeling Samsung will dodge it once again somehow

Edit: It says they’re not mandating it, and I’m pretty sure Samsung uses their own implementation anyways, so no hopes here

MigratingtoLemmy, to android in 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.

Excellent job google.

southsamurai, to android in 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.
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

What’s the hidden gotcha though?

nephs, to android in 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.

What’s the difference?

ObsidianZed, to android in 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.

Isn’t that how iPhones update? I feel like I recall reading something similar a couple years back for iPhones.

ByteMe, to android in Mishaal Rahman: The Tensor G3 is the first smartphone SoC to support hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. It supports AV1 encoding at up to 4K60.

So sd3 doesn’t support it?

Cort,

No other smartphone SoC supports AV1 encoding, not the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Dimensity 9300, or Exynos 2400

ByteMe,

Interesting. Do we know why? Av1 is around for quite a few

Cort,

Sorry, that was just a quote from the article. You’d have to ask Chip manufacturers why they’re not including this hardware encoder/decoder.

harry315,

Needing lots of transistors and energy

Dudewitbow,

its computationally intensive, so for platforms where battery life is a significant factor, its prioritized less.

JustEnoughDucks,
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

Because there is no need for now compared to cost and efficiency.

Decoding - yes and I believe the last gen has that because streaming services are switching to AV1. However, only creators really would stream and make use of the encoding features.

CCMan1701A,

Would help with video conference calls, but 265 is fine for now.

philodendron, to android in Mishaal Rahman: The Tensor G3 is the first smartphone SoC to support hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. It supports AV1 encoding at up to 4K60.

I hope this means Pixels will be able to compete with iPhone on camera video quality

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