Google in may of 2017 presented the initiative of the Treble Project for Android. Its essence lies in the separation of low-level parts of the skeleton operating system, that is, from shell and custom add-ons manufacturer specific smartphone.
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This will allow vendors to quickly update devices to the latest version of the operating system. The new modular architecture working since Android Oreo, which at the beginning of 2018 installed only 0.7% of all Android devices.
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However, Project Treble will not be supported by all smartphones, even if you upgrade the OS to the eighth version — the last word remains with the manufacturer.
So, the list of devices that support Project Treble:
Google:
- Google Pixel
- Google Pixel XL
Honor/Huawei:
- Huawei Mate 9
- Huawei Mate 9 Pro
- Huawei Mate Lite 10
- Huawei Nova 2
- Honor 7X
- Honor 8 Pro
- Honor 9
- Honor 9i
- Huawei P10
- Huawei P10 Lite
- Huawei P10 Plus
Other:
- ASUS Zenfone 4
- Essential Phone
- Razer Phone
- Sharp Aquos S2
- Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro
The device, informally updated with Project Treble:
- Lenovo ZUK Z2 Plus
- ZUK Lenovo Z2 Pro
- Xiaomi Redmi Note 4
- Xiaomi Mi 5
- Xiaomi Mi 5s
- Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus
- Xiaomi Mi 6
- Xiaomi Redmi 3s/3X
- 5 Xiaomi Redmi Note/Redmi 5 Plus
Project Treble also simplified the porting of the stock firmware on the device with a custom shell, which often do not have the proprietary Google services. In response, Google began to block their apps on non-certified Android devices.