Linaro supercharging Android and showing the power of Open Source

7. MichaelHeller posted on 14 Jun 2012, 21:58 7

This has nothing to do with it really, but yes devices running or getting ICS should eventually see the Jelly Bean update. All updates should get pushed to all compatible devices. The only outlier there has ever been in the Android line is Honeycomb. Everything else should make it out, assuming manufacturers do it.

12. mas11 posted on 14 Jun 2012, 23:19 1

Thanks for clarifying!

22. ahomad posted on 15 Jun 2012, 06:38 0

Honeycomb is android version made for tablets only. Jellybeans is also romured to be aimed for tablets improvements as well (given that android tablets not doing well). so we might not see this update hitting android phones.

25. MichaelHeller posted on 15 Jun 2012, 11:50 2

Jelly Bean is rumored to be launching with the Nexus tablet. It's not rumored to be exclusive to tablets.

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17. jove39 posted on 15 Jun 2012, 01:06 2

Officially...forget it...but dev community won't take long...since code base will be similarly structured and they'll be done with optimizations for ICS by then

8. MichaelHeller posted on 14 Jun 2012, 22:00 9

Actually, it's more like Android could be even faster if the code were optimized more. Google focused on UI and features with ICS (as with Froyo), so it will be focusing on optimizations now. We're hoping Linaro is part of that, but it will happen either way.

21. ahomad posted on 15 Jun 2012, 06:34 0

I am not sure if I understood correctly, you said ICS update was mainly updating UI and features, but what I usually read in any topic is that ICS made huge performance upgrade. there seems to be conflict in here or am I confused?

26. MichaelHeller posted on 15 Jun 2012, 11:51 0

There was a huge performance upgrade with ICS, but that wasn't the main focus of the update. The point is that Google could have optimized the software more than it did, but chose to focus more on UI and features.

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11. Riven posted on 14 Jun 2012, 22:55 8

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15. MichaelHeller posted on 15 Jun 2012, 00:09 8

Yes, let's all spend our time optimizing for obsolete hardware!

27. MichaelHeller posted on 15 Jun 2012, 11:55 0

edited. sorry about that. I was just quoting from the Linaro literature, which refers to them as "closed binary blobs". Obviously, I'm not a coder, so I was trusting them on that.

29. TylerGrunter posted on 17 Jun 2012, 06:28 0

No problem, in fact is common mistake the Linux developers make. A blob is just a large binary, which includes images, videos, etc. So in order to differenciate the "executable code in binary" the call it just "binary". Why? Because in Linux there used to be two tipes of files in the filesystem: text or binary. At that time the only binaries where the exectuable ones (no need for images or videos in shell, really), so executables are still called binaries in Linux. Therefore they are not "really wrong" naming them binary blobs.
The name should be changed as binary blob sounds stupid, but old customs die hard.
But hey, it could be just me being too picky. ;)

24. nicholassss posted on 15 Jun 2012, 11:09 0

I know google has a lot more red tape to cut through before they can release stuff, but ti seems like it it can be made so much better, it should be made so much better, you know what I mean?