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On May 20, 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. [29] On March 13, 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw. Android was formerly managed by Andy Rubin, [30] who was a director of Jive Software from April 2011 to July 30, 2013.
Firmware hacks usually take advantage of the firmware update facility on many devices to install or run themselves. Some, however, must resort to exploits to run, because the manufacturer has attempted to lock the hardware to stop it from running unlicensed code. Most firmware hacks are free software.
Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP), pronounced "twerp", [4] is an open-source software custom recovery image for Android-based devices. [5] [6] It provides a touchscreen-enabled interface that allows users to install third-party firmware and back up the current system, functions usually not supported by stock recovery images.
Android Gingerbread (2.3 – 2.3.7) Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).
Odin is a utility software program developed and used by Samsung internally which is used to communicate with Samsung devices in Odin mode (also called download mode) through the Thor (protocol). It can be used to flash a custom recovery firmware image (as opposed to the stock recovery firmware image) to a Samsung Android device.
The name is a play on the word kang (slang for stolen code) and AOSP (Android Open Source Project). The name was a joke, but it stuck. [ 1 ] It was started as free and open-source software by Roman Birg based on the official releases of Android Open Source Project by Google , with added original and third-party code, features, and control.
Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the seventh version of Android, a version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and released in December 2010. Version [ edit ]
Android most commonly refers to: Android (robot) , a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human Android (operating system) , a mobile operating system primarily developed by Google