Platform Developers Kit (PDK): the solution to eliminate the fragmentation Android

For Android there was no effect of "butter" the softness of the UI and texture of mature and stable ecosystem. Jelly Bean With all this seems to have arrived. For Android lacked the assistant voice and advanced voice features. With all Android 4.1 has arrived even if only in English. What is still missing in Android? An update system that allows all producers to shorten development time significantly. In this regard, during the Google I / O was presented the  Platform Development Kit (PDK) , a system that will enable OEMs to have the new distribution system 3 months before the announcement.

 

This is basically the equivalent SDK for developers but for manufacturers who can thus begin compatibility testing up to three months before the release of the new distribution and thus shorten the time for the propagation of the update and certification of updates.

An important step in reducing the fragmentation in the short term and a system that appears to be effective. Unfortunately, we know how the manufacturer uses months to update the device to the latest versions and ICS is an example because at 7 months of the submission is about 7% of the devices that have seen the update (and among these we find also the Nexus).

The  Platform Developers Kit (PDK)  is therefore proposed as the "solution" to fragmentation. Of course alone will not be effective and the houses will have to commit themselves to test and updates in a timely fashion.

When all this will be a reality?

The PDK Jelly Bean was sent to OEMs only 1 month before the official presentation of Jelly Bean and thus do not have particular benefits with this distribution. Obviously, for producers who have already released the ICS will be easier to move to JB but the commitment and the necessary work will still be high.

The  Platform Developers Kit (PDK) , therefore could "come up" the next version of Android, a hypothetical 5.0, which could come in 2013. In this case the producers might receive KDP 3 months before the announcement and begin work on the development and porting of their interfaces and drivers to make it compatible with your hardware renewed their device. 3 months, however, will not be sufficient to release any update, but waiting 2/3 months of the announcement official, so bring your development time in 6 months, could be a longer than acceptable to users.

We hope that this will mean an end to the fragmentation of Android.