Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.FragmentedChicken@lemdro.id to Android@lemdro.id – 109 points – 4 months agoandroiddev.social12Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsGood. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.My last couple phones have been Samsungs (need MDM support for work) and I had no idea this even existed, let alone that everyone else has it already.I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it's been a while.I have a feeling Samsung will dodge it once again somehow Edit: It says they're not mandating it, and I'm pretty sure Samsung uses their own implementation anyways, so no hopes here
Good. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.My last couple phones have been Samsungs (need MDM support for work) and I had no idea this even existed, let alone that everyone else has it already.I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it's been a while.I have a feeling Samsung will dodge it once again somehow Edit: It says they're not mandating it, and I'm pretty sure Samsung uses their own implementation anyways, so no hopes here
My last couple phones have been Samsungs (need MDM support for work) and I had no idea this even existed, let alone that everyone else has it already.I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it's been a while.
I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it's been a while.
I have a feeling Samsung will dodge it once again somehow Edit: It says they're not mandating it, and I'm pretty sure Samsung uses their own implementation anyways, so no hopes here
Good. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.
My last couple phones have been Samsungs (need MDM support for work) and I had no idea this even existed, let alone that everyone else has it already.
I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it's been a while.
I have a feeling Samsung will dodge it once again somehow
Edit: It says they're not mandating it, and I'm pretty sure Samsung uses their own implementation anyways, so no hopes here