You may have heard a great deal (or none at all) about Project Treble. The reason that it is sort of a big deal is that it is Android’s ongoing solution for the problem that Android has faced since the very early days of its existence: fragmentation – this happens when the latest version of Android is updated and OEMs (namely, Samsung) take a long time to update its heavily skinned devices to the latest version of Android. By contrast, iOS does not have this issue since Apple controls both the hardware and software of the iPhone.
Treble sought out to help end fragmentation (or at least…