“Seamless Updates” has been there, since Android 7.0 Nougat launched all the way back in 2016…..! This allows smartphones and tablets to install new updates in the background and apply them on a reboot. Even six years after its introduction, though, there are still some notable holdouts. Which have refused to adopt Seamless Updates on their devices. In Android 13, though, Seamless Updates might finally become mandatory.
Samsung felon without any query, with avoiding Seamless Updates. Samsung’s recent flagships such as the Galaxy S22 and the new foldable, it has completely ignored the feature of every device. These point to Seamless Updates being a requirement for devices launching with Android 13, with one exception for devices shipping with older vendor software.
The knowing website Esper spotted some furious changes. Compatibility Definition Document (CDD) for Android 13, Google notes that “device implementations SHOULD support A/B system updates.” Compressing snapshots significantly reduces how much space they take up in the “user data”. Partition and effectively makes virtual A/B updates as space efficient as non-A/B.
OEMs aren’t required to ship devices with virtual A/B compression, XOR compression, or io_uring enabled. However, OEMs will be required to support virtual A/B with userspace snapshots on new devices launching with Android 13 or later.
This is evidenced by new tests added to the Vendor Test Suite (VTS) making virtual A/B mandatory for Android 13 launch devices. These tests were merged prior to Android 13’s launch, and they remain in place. While Android 11 has previously. But in Android 13 changes to mandate virtual A/B support are still in place after the OS has shipped on devices. With that in mind, it certainly looks like this will finally change this year.
Concluding up…
Contradicting the needs of the updates of the Android, Android 13 CDD doesn’t say that A/B system updates are required. But virtual A/B support is now mandatory* for GMS licensing. Sure awaited to see how future Android 13 launch devices won’t support Seamless Updates.
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