The news first came by a «mysterious
Android codebase commit» from last month submitted to Hacker News.
Based on the existing
Android codebase, Wear minimizes and pares down the touch elements for a smaller display, like a smartwatch.
The Android OS's current NFC code shuts the NFC hardware off entirely when the device is powering down or when the user turns off NFC, but a new code commit in
the Android codebase points to some functionality that may change that.
Not exact matches
you build your
Android and iOS app from the same
codebase, minimising the time.
After being announced last year, Google took to the stage at MWC 2018 to announce a beta release of Flutter, its free and open - source framework for building iOS and
Android apps with a unified
codebase.
The beauty of the
Android Open Source Project is that anyone can improve
Android, as Google rolls code from outside contributors into the mainline
codebase, so individuals can feel like they're making a difference to something larger than themselves.
More importantly though, the GPL creates a culture of giving back, resulting in even some of the most tightlipped of OEMs pushing some code upstream to the mainline
Android Open Source Project (AOSP) itself, even if only for the sake of reducing the amount of maintenance that their
codebase requires.
While Bornstein remained confident Google's use of Java APIs was fair, lawyers pointed out that he instructed a contractor to eliminate the «J - word» — Java — from
Android's
codebase alongside the terms [sic] sun, oracle, orcl, java, jvm, jdk, jre, jcp, jsr, patent * and licens *.
The company will also roll out
Android L, ASAP when they have access to the
codebase.