The new photo picker won’t be exclusive to Android 13.
Jan 9, 2023, 6:21 PM UTCGoogle is taking another shot at bringing new features to phones that haven’t gotten OS updates in years. It’s releasing something called the “Extension Software Developer Kit,” which should let developers use features likein apps running on some versions of Android 11 and 12. In a blog post announcing the change, the company says the feature lets it “extend the support of certain platform functionality to existing Android versions.
While more access to the photo picker previously exclusive to Android 13 is definitely nice, Google seems to have much bigger plans for the Extension SDK. “This update also sets the stage for expanding Privacy Sandbox testing on Android,” says Scott Westover, a Google spokesperson. Privacy Sandbox is Google’sfor its current ad-tracking system, and the company is planning to roll out the beta for the system on Android 13.
So far, Google isn’t talking about backporting Privacy Sandbox to older versions of the OS. Instead, it seems like the Extension SDK will help the company update Privacy Sandbox on newer versions of Android without having to put out major OS updates. The blog uses the test as an example of how being able to introduce new features outside of major updates “allows faster innovations.
This is just the latest effort from Google to make sure that users can still get new features, even if the company that made their phone isn’t releasing software updates. (Something I deeply appreciate as someone who just bought
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