Google will develop the operating system Android In a completely private way, although it will continue to facilitate the source code with updates, as part of a strategy that seeks to expedite work on new characteristics and failure correction.
The technology company aims to consolidate the branch of private developed of Android, a change that will begin to apply next week with the works of Android 16 and that will barely have an impact on users or developers.
Currently, Google has Two branches of development SU OPERATING SYSTEM: ANDROID OPEN SOURCE PROJECT (AOSP) y A private internal branch. The latter is limited to ‘smartphones’ manufacturers that have a license to use Google mobile services (GMS).
AOSP, meanwhile, is a Android open and free versionaccessible to anyone, that Google shares under an Apache 2.0 license and that admits contributions and modifications of third party developers, although the last word about its incorporation into the operating system is the technology company.
Google develops components in the public branch, while others work internally. This generates A gap in the availability of some updates and included Fusion conflictsand therefore, Google has decided to unify them in a branch of private development, as confirmed to Android Authority.
It is more good about The consolidation of a strategy towards which Google has been turning time, but does not mean that Android becomes a closed code operating system, since Google has assured that will publish the source code of the new Android updates. It will have mainly impact on the publication of the Android specific component code, whose times will be expedited.
This change It will not have a notable impact on users or developersThey explain from the aforementioned environment, since, although it will help work faster in updates and error corrections, it does not seem to translate into that the operating system update arrives before.