Qualcomm has announced it s working with Google to expand Project Treble.
The partnership aims to bring up to 4 years of updates to Android devices powered by Qualcomm chips, starting with the Snapdragon 888.
It s still up to smartphone OEMs on whether or not they want to continue providing updates.
The Android update process has always been a mess and was once the main pain point for users. They have admittedly gotten better over the past several years, thanks to Google s push for Project Treble, which it introduced in 2017 as part of Android 8.0 Oreo. In a nutshell, Project Treble separates Android into different parts, which is supposed to make it easier for Android OEMs to update what they need and push them out quicker. It was a bit of a slow uptake, but OEMs have managed to speed up the pace at which major updates are pushed out to devices, especially with Android 10. And while the update situation for Android is much improved, Qualcomm and Google have announced a partnershi