Sentences with phrase «version fragmentation problem»

The more prominent security feature coincides with a larger project at Google to fix Android's nagging version fragmentation problem.

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Android 8.0 Oreo has been out for a while now with version 8.1 running on some phones, but most available smartphones are yet to get the latest from Google, thanks to the long - standing problem of Android fragmentation.

That problem, of course, is the slow pace at which Android updates are rolled out by device manufacturers to smartphones, leading to fragmentation with smartphones on different Android versions and exposing users to security risks.

Now that Samsung is pretty much the only Android handset manufacturer making any money, you'd think that Android's fragmentation problem would start to get better, but the latest Android fragmentation report from OpenSignal reveals the madness of developing for multiple screen sizes, hardware specs, and various versions of Android, has only gotten worse over the last year.

Google's move might also be an attempt by the company to handle what has become known as its Android «fragmentation» problem, a scenario in which people around the globe are using different devices and running different versions of its Android software, ultimately creating headaches and security woes.