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Google Pixel 6 to Feature Custom Whitechapel Chip ALSO READ A report from  XDA Developers shows new evidence regarding Google’s custom chip codenamed “Whitechapel”. This was spotted in new strings of code submitted by Google engineers on the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). It showed the codename “Whitechapel” for an item named “P21”. According to XDA’s report, “P21” could be referring to the upcoming Pixel 6, and “Whitechapel” is, of course, the custom Google chip ...

Android 12 will automatically hibernate unused apps to free up storage space. The app hibernation feature will remove temporary files and stop notifications from apps that haven’t been used for months. The first traces of a new app hibernation feature on Android 12 appeared back in January and were spotted as part of the code changes submitted to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Now, folks over at XDA Developers have managed to make the feature work on a leaked Android 12 build they r...

Android 360 Reality Audio support coming courtesy of Sony JC Torres - Apr 13, 2021, 1:00pm CDT In the multimedia experience, audio almost always gets the short end of the stick compared to video and graphics. Lately, however, there has been a growing awareness of the role that sound plays in the overall experience, especially with the rise of Bluetooth earphones and earbuds. Technologies that were once limited to large speakers are now coming to accessories as small as TWS bu...

Google announces Pixel 5a 5G coming this year ANI | Updated: Apr 10, 2021 13:20 IST Washington [US], April 10 (ANI): Just hours after several reports claimed that Googles Pixel 5a 5G has been cancelled due to chip shortage, the tech giant has shot down the rumours, stating that the handset will launch later this year. As per The Verge, after rumours of the phone being cancelled surfaced, a Google spokesperson squashed the news and released a statement, sha...

Looking to prevent memory bugs, the Android Open Source Project now supports the Rust language for development of the Android mobile OS itself, taking on development tasks that have been the domain of C/C++. In a Google blog post on April 6, members of the Android team stressed that correctness of code in Android was a top priority for security, stability, and quality. Memory safety bugs are a top contributor to stability issues, representing about 70 percent of high-severity security vulnerabi...

Google announces Pixel 5A 5G by denying rumors it’s canceled Share this story Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has officially announced a new Pixel phone, the Pixel 5A 5G. It’s done so in the same way it has announced a lot of recent Pixel phones: by reacting to a rumor. This time is a little less fun than usual, though, because the rumor in question is that the phone had been canceled entirely. In response, a Google spokesperson sent along the following statement: Pixel 5...

Correctness of code in the Android platform is a top priority for the security, stability, and quality of each Android release. Memory safety bugs in C and C++ continue to be the most-difficult-to-address source of incorrectness. We invest a great deal of effort and resources into detecting, fixing, and mitigating this class of bugs, and these efforts are effective in preventing a large number of bugs from making it into Android releases. Yet in spite of these efforts, memory safety bugs contin...

Google Using Rust for Low-Level Android Development Google is now using Rust for low-level development of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Kotlin and Java are the primary languages used for creating Android applications, but C and C++ are still used for the core of the operating system (OS). Google is hoping to use the advantages Rust provides by allowing its use in the low-level OS. Rust is very similar to C and C++, having many of the same keywords and commands. Like C, Rust also has n...

Making Infotainment Systems Become Intelligent Hypervisor approach to incorporate Android or AliOS in a current IVI News provided by Share this article BERLIN and NINGBO, China, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  JOYNEXT and OpenSynergy announce their joint mass production project: a new generation of in-vehicle infotainment bringing this domain to the next level without adding more complexity to the electronic system of the cars. The systems contain a well-known reliable full-featured infotainme...

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