What is Project Treble?

Android 8.0 Oreo was officially launched in August of 2017. Though it comes with many new features, the most notable one is ‘Project Treble’. Let us deep dive in this article to know about Project Treble, supported devices and its future. What is Project Treble in Detail This is what Google has to say, Project Treble, a major re-architect of the Android OS framework designed to make it easier, faster, and less costly for manufacturers to update devices to a new version of Android. Treble is for all new devices launching with Android 8.0 and beyond. In a nutshell, Project Treble allows ROM developers to update their software to newer Android version easily. Before Project Treble Before Project Treble, i.e. in Android Nougat and earlier versions, the software had a single unified layer consisting of both Android Framework and Vendor implementation. The first one contains all Android Operating System related things and the latter one contains implementations made by hardware vendors, i.e SoC manufacturers to support the Android system. Thus, whenever new Android version arrives, the developers had to update the Android framework as well as rework the vendor implementation to support that software. It was really a tedious work and thus updates took more time to reach the end users. Project Treble Project Treble compatible smartphones will have two separate layers for both Android Framework and Vendor implementation. Thus, when a new Android version arrives, the developers just have to update their Android framework. Thus, Project Treble makes the update task easier and faster, so end user can enjoy the latest version of Android quicker than before. Project Treble Supported Devices As of now, Project Treble is supported by some handful of devices running Android Oreo or even Nougat in some cases. The list includes Google’s Pixel smartphones both first and second generations, Huawei’s Mate 9 series, Mate 10 series, Honor 9, Honor 8 Pro and Sony’s Xperia XZ1 as well as XZ1 Compact. Sadly, though OnePlus, Nokia updated their flagships to Android Oreo, they don’t support Project Treble. However, it will be supported by almost all smartphone launching with Android Oreo out of the box from next year. Future of Project Treble Project Treble has a wonderful future ahead especially in Custom ROM community. Developers can have a one unified build for multiple devices which support Project Treble. A developer has already booted a same Android 8.0 AOSP build on multiple devices from different OEMs as well as different SoC. The smartphones he tested were Huawei Mate 9, Honor 8 Pro, Honor 9, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact and Essential Phone. Now, that’s really a breakthrough. Which clearly means in the future, most of the Custom ROMs will have the same build for multiple smartphones. 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Essential Phone gets Portrait Mode in camera update

Essential Phone gets Portrait Mode in camera update

Essential Phone was one of the different kind of device when laucnhed with full Bezel Less display sporting 18:9 content display. The Essential Phone has already received many updates to make its camera bug free and feature full platter. Essential Phone camera came with many bugs when launched but after many updates it has got fully stabilized.

Now, in a bid to add more feature to the Essential phone camera, the Andy Rubin company has pushed another update. The new update brings many new features to the camera app but the major one is the addition of the portrait mode.

Now, users can take pictures in portrait mode and photo below is a sample taken with the phone after the update. So, now your Essential Phone is able to take photos with the bokeh effect. It will blur out the objects beside the object you are focusing on.

The other changes that took place in the new update are exposure compensation, reduction in JPEG compression to improve image quality.

The changes are now reflecting in the new update which is live at the Play Store. You can also head over to the Play store to get the latest update for Essential Phone camera app.

How many of you are loving this new update?