{"id":486064,"date":"2010-03-29T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"9044 at http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com"},"modified":"2010-03-29T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:04:44","slug":"google-finally-to-address-android-fragmentation-with-froyo-gingerbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/486064","title":{"rendered":"Google finally to address Android fragmentation with FroYo, Gingerbread?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/articleimage\/Phil%20Nickinson\/2010\/03\/thumb_300_android_nexus_eyes_1.png\" alt=\"Android\" class=\"lightbox2\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Biggest complaint we hear about Android? The number of OS versions spread out over the vast number of devices, and the painful wait for updates. We&#8217;re currently running the gamut from Android 1.5 &#8212; even on new phones like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/hands-motorola-i1-iden-android-phone-sprint\">Motorola i1<\/a> &#8212; to Android 2.1, currently on the <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcentral.com\/tags\/nexus-one\">Nexus One<\/a> and a handful of Milestones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">But what if that were to finally go away? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/03\/29\/exclusive-android-froyo-to-take-a-serious-shot-at-stemming-plat\/\">Engadget says it has on good authority<\/a> that Google&#8217;s going to do something about that with the <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcentral.com\/tags\/froyo\">FroYo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcentral.com\/tags\/gingerbread\">Gingerbread<\/a> releases of Android. And it&#8217;ll do so by moving some of the core apps out of the ROM and into the Android Market. That&#8217;s already been done with <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcentral.com\/tags\/google-maps\">Google Maps<\/a>. And it makes sense. Move apps like Maps, <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcentral.com\/tags\/google-goggles\">Googles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcentral.com\/tags\/gesture-search\">Gesture Search<\/a> &#8212; to name a few &#8212; into the Market, and the onus no longer is on manufacturers and carriers to test, update and approve them all over again just to push out a ROM&nbsp;update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Engadget also points to a second track, in that the Android OS development may start to slow as it reaches maturity. Again, makes sense, and it&#8217;ll make life easier on everybody if we&#8217;re not seeing major releases come month after month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">This likely will still take some time to implement, so you guys are gonna have plenty of days left to gnash your teeth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/motorola-droids-android-21-update-status-updated-facebook\">over when you&#8217;ll get the latest update<\/a>. But it may well be light at the end of the tunnel. 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The number of OS versions spread out over the vast number of devices, and the painful wait for updates. We&#8217;re currently running the gamut from Android 1.5 &#8212; even on new phones like the Motorola i1 &#8212; to Android 2.1, currently on the Nexus One and a handful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}