There are some parts of mobile operating systems like Google Android that can only be updated by pushing out a new version of the OS. But over the past few years, Google has uncoupled a bunch of core features of the operating system so that updates can be delivered via the Google Play Store and updates to Google Play Services.
In case you didn’t know, your phone has a GPU built into it which helps to handle more intensive tasks like games, movies, and so on. Now updating the drivers on your phone isn’t really something many of us think about, unlike computers where we sometimes get prompted by manufacturers.
While the company still can’t seem to manage an emoji option without releasing a new version of Android, soon you’ll be able to update the graphics drivers on your device through the Play Store.
However whether or not OEM’s or chipset manufacturers plan on taking advantage of this feature remains to seen. It is also unclear as to how exactly this will work or how it might present itself, but Android Police is suggesting that this could be part of Google’s Project Treble whose aim is to try and push out Android updates faster.
So now in addition to better forward-compatibility for chipsets (to prevent travesties like no 7.0 Nougat support for the Snapdragon 800/801), we can also look forward to more PC-like hardware updates, at least for GPU binaries. We don’t know yet if the updates will be the responsibility of OEMs or chipset manufacturers like Qualcomm, but now we know the method.
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Via: Android Police
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