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Keeping my fingers crossed that Project Treble is the real deal and would actually make it possible for a "generic AOSP image" to be installed on virtually any

by mtgx 9y ago

Keeping my fingers crossed that Project Treble is the real deal and would actually make it possible for a "generic AOSP image" to be installed on virtually any mobile device that came with Android. That's the dream, isn't it? But I think we've been burned too many times by Google's promises to "make it easier" for OEMs to update devices and other such promises, or at least these projects always sounded much better than they turned out to be. Hopefully this time it is different. I would be curious to know when Project Treble started. I imagine something like this, and if it was serious enough, would take 3-4 years of development and thought put into it? If it's less than two years then I would probably be worried about just how much thought and development Google put into it. I would also be disappointed that Google only started taking such a project seriously two years ago - or seven years after Android officially launched. Some could say this "feature" should have been enabled from day one.

vanderZwan 9y ago
Is Project Treble "backwards compatible" with old models? If so I hope it will work out for Fairphone users, especially the first model which is doesn't receive as much support as the Fairphone 2
- xbmcuser 9y ago
  Not backwards compatible mostly this has seperated the hardware drivers from the os itself but unless the device system partition is repatitioned and the drivers been provided by the hardware manufacturer old phones won't get updated any time soon. Mostly the newer phones that are released with Android O will have the ability to update to the latest version of Android missing a few things that your phone doesn't support like iOS does with older iPhones even if the Oem no longer procides updates..
- Mindwipe 9y ago
  No. In theory you could backport it to older phones, and OEMs allegedly might, but I wouldn't expect that to be the norm and it's not mandatory from Google in order to get Oreo.
discreditable 9y ago
> make it possible for a "generic AOSP image" to be installed on virtually any mobile device that came with Android I would really love that. It would take the "how crappy is the vendor UI?" problem out of the equation when looking to purchase a phone.

by mtgx 9y ago

vanderZwan 9y ago

Is Project Treble "backwards compatible" with old models? If so I hope it will work out for Fairphone users, especially the first model which is doesn't receive as much support as the Fairphone 2

xbmcuser 9y ago
Not backwards compatible mostly this has seperated the hardware drivers from the os itself but unless the device system partition is repatitioned and the drivers been provided by the hardware manufacturer old phones won't get updated any time soon. Mostly the newer phones that are released with Android O will have the ability to update to the latest version of Android missing a few things that your phone doesn't support like iOS does with older iPhones even if the Oem no longer procides updates..
Mindwipe 9y ago
No. In theory you could backport it to older phones, and OEMs allegedly might, but I wouldn't expect that to be the norm and it's not mandatory from Google in order to get Oreo.

discreditable 9y ago

> make it possible for a "generic AOSP image" to be installed on virtually any mobile device that came with Android I would really love that. It would take the "how crappy is the vendor UI?" problem out of the equation when looking to purchase a phone.