{"id":53905,"date":"2017-12-05T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53905"},"modified":"2017-12-05T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:08:18","slug":"google-launches-android-oreo-go-edition-for-low-end-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-launches-android-oreo-go-edition-for-low-end-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Android Oreo Go edition for low-end phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google launches Android Oreo Go edition for low-end phones<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

At Google I\/O in May of this year, Google promised a version of Android custom-designed for low-end devices. Today, \u201cAndroid Go (Oreo edition)\u201d is being made available for device manufacturers and developers. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s available to users yet \u2014 but presumably that\u2019ll happen in fairly short order.<\/span><\/p>\n

The premise behind Android Go is pretty simple. It\u2019s a build of Android Oreo that is designed to run better on phones with either 512MB or 1GB of RAM. By comparison, the Pixel 2 (like most flagships) has 4GB of RAM, while the iPhone X has 3GB and the Galaxy Note 8 has a whopping 6GB.<\/span><\/p>\n

Making the same operating system work on both flagships and the cheapest of cheap phones is a challenge, but it\u2019s one Google says it\u2019s overcome. Go edition is not meant to be a \u201cfork\u201d of Android Oreo so much as a variant that a manufacturer can just set by ticking off a configuration flag.<\/span><\/p>\n

Setting those configs does a few things. It sets the phone up to use the \u201cGo\u201d versions of a handful of Google apps \u2014 including the main Google app, Google Assistant, Google Maps, Gmail, and so on. Some of those apps, like YouTube Go, have special features for downloading stuff over Wi-Fi, In other cases, the \u201cGo\u201d versions are radically smaller than their regular variants. The smaller apps and slimmer OS can as much as halve the amount of storage that\u2019s taken up by default on a brand new phone.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also \u201cperformance and storage improvements\u201d in the Go edition of Oreo \u2014 and you\u2019d think that you\u2019d want that for every Android phone. But in this case, that\u2019s not necessarily true; optimizing an app to take up less storage can also mean it takes a little longer to launch. On phones where storage is at a premium, you optimize for that. On most high-end phones, however, you\u2019d rather get those milliseconds back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google is also piling on a bunch of other data-saving features turned on out of the box. So in Chrome, everything will get run through a Google server that reduces file sizes before it gets delivered to your phone. There\u2019s also the new Datally app for tracking where you data went.<\/span><\/p>\n

Android Go is distinct and different from Android One, by the way. Both are intended to raise the quality of low-end devices, but from different directions. One is a system where Google partners directly with the manufacturer to decide what goes on the phone and keep it up to date (sort of like the Nexus ecosystem). One used to strictly be a low-end play, but lately it\u2019s been creeping up the price scale with the release of the Moto X4 on Project Fi in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

Android Go, by comparison, is a full release of Android available from the Android Open Source Project for any manufacturer to use. However, it\u2019s pretty important to note that much (if not most) of what makes the Go edition special comes from Google\u2019s own apps. So it\u2019s not totally clear how much impact we\u2019ll actually see in areas where Google\u2019s apps aren’t available \u2014 that is to say, China.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google tells me that, going forward, the \u201cGo edition\u201d of future Android releases won\u2019t be quite so delayed compared to the full ones. For now, though, the Go edition of Oreo is available for manufacturers to start using, which should mean we’ll see it on new devices soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chances are the first phones to use it will be launched in India \u2014 Google notes that it has more users there than it does in the US now, after all. Google also points out that this release comes \u201calongside\u201d the release of Android 8.1, which should be available \u201ctomorrow\u201d (but more likely today, depending on your time zone).<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/12\/5\/16736260\/google-android-oreo-go-edition<\/span><\/p>\n

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