Thanks to kernel updates never happening, this means every new release of Android usually has to support the last three years of LTS kernel releases (the minimum for Android 10 is 4.9, a 2016 ...

Sameer Samat, President of Google’s Android Ecosystem, confirmed in a recent interview that Chrome OS will no longer remain a ...

RISC-V is gone from the general Android kernel, motivations aren't entirely clear yet By Alfonso Maruccia May 2, 2024, 15:27 Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.

The AOSP code base is licensed with Apache 2.0, and the kernel uses GPL2, which means there's nothing stopping OEMs from deploying stock Android under a different name. But doing so would also ...

Unified Android kernel won’t solve Android fragmentation There is also an important limit to Google’s proposal. Currently, Google is only suggesting that the kernel needs to be stable for a ...

Google has upgraded the kernel version of all Tensor-powered Pixels in the Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 release. The Google Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, Pixel 8 series, Pixel Tablet, and Pixel Fold ...

According to Google, 85 percent of the kernel vulnerabilities in Android were due to bugs in vendor drivers. Kernel bugs themselves made up more than a third of Android security bugs last year.

Brady over-stated the case. Android is Linux. To be exact, version, 2.2, Froyo, runs on top of the 2.6.32 Linux kernel. To quote from the Android developer page, Dalvik, Android’s Java-based ...