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Google announces that Android 13 is officially open source and can be used by mobile phone manufacturers

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 12:06:27 09月13日 Update

CTOnews.com8 reported on March 16 that today Google has pushed an official update of Android 13 to the Pixel model. The company also announced that Android 13 has been officially open source and the source code of the new Android 13 system has been uploaded to the Android open source project (AOSP).

The open source code means that all Android phone manufacturers can now use and adapt their own phones, and it is also necessary to develop custom ROM such as LineageOS.

Open source is also important for developers because they will also release compatible versions of their applications and use API to build more features.

It is worth mentioning that Google released the source code of Android 13 under the Apache license version 2.0, which means that developers are free to modify and distribute the code without having to open source their modifications, which allows smartphone manufacturers to develop their own closed-source operating systems.

The Android 13 update brings security improvements (privacy, notifications, etc.), UI / theme improvements, productivity gains (tablet interactions, etc.), OpenJDK 11 LTS updates, support for the new MIDI 2.0 standard, ART optimization (to improve application performance and efficiency), garbage collection improvements (to reduce memory pressure), and a variety of other evolution and changes.

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CTOnews.com learned that the Android 13 operating system has been launched to Google Pixel devices today, and Google said it will appear on devices from other vendors later this year. If you want to know more details of Android 13, please click here to check out the Android developer blog.

This morning, according to the official announcement of the Xiaomi community, Xiaomi 12 Pro, Xiaomi 12 and Redmi K50 Pro have launched the official MIUI development version of Android 13 today through applications based on the Android 13 MIUI development version.

Yesterday afternoon, Samsung Galaxy announced that Android 13 / One UI 5, the national bank of Samsung S22 / Ultra series, will start internal test recruitment and registration applications are expected to begin on August 23.