What an upgrade! ducks –
It’s still in beta, but it’s up and running on the iPhone 7.
Android ports often get a big development boost thanks to the shared hardware of the ARM ecosystem. Something like the Nintendo Switch normally wouldn’t have a scrap of pre-existing Android code to its name, but the Switch’s Nvidia Tegra SoC is also used in Android devices, and this shared hardware means there’s already a valuable codebase to start from. This is true of most devices, since Qualcomm, Nvidia, Mediatek, and others all sell their SoC to a wide consumer base — if you want to port Android to something, a good first step is to find another device with similar hardware that already runs Android and start with that code base. This strategy does not work for the iPhone, though — it has an Apple SoC, which is only used in Apple devices, so there is truly no pre-existing Android code to work from. You’ve got to write drivers from scratch. The big challenge was that the Apple hardware is both undocumented and nonstandard, “Wang told (Forbes) . “Our team knows more about it than most outside Apple, but we still had to put in a significant amount of work to build drivers for it.”
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