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Do they have the internal culture to maintain the code base? If their hiring process fills their ranks with people who are good at coding interviews, would that
by randomsilence 5y ago
Do they have the internal culture to maintain the code base? If their hiring process fills their ranks with people who are good at coding interviews, would that be enough to maintain the Android platform?
- brimble 5y agoThe nuts-and-bolts of Android—the stuff that doesn't make for a really pretty and flashy yet-another-redesign announcements—has felt badly neglected since I started using and developing for it over a decade ago. Google seems to be terrible at getting its workforce to do the mountain of boring-but-useful work that needs to happen to make Android suck less. Instead, we get yet another widget redesign (with most of the actual implementation left up to app developers—oh you didn't think any of that pretty stuff would just work, did you? Hahaha, making it work is boring, you silly person!) and ten more messengers (product launches = promotions, don't you know!)
- Bayart 5y agoGoogle has been working on another OS, Fuchsia [1], for 6 years. That may be where the system developers went. [1]: https://fuchsia.dev https://fuchsia.dev
- erichocean 5y agoCertainly you'd hope that's where Google's best system developers went, and Android is currently being maintained by their B team.
- fomine3 5y agoLooks plausible reason why recent AndroidOS aren't good upgrade.