Google is trying to develop a new app called Triangle to control data usage. The concept is not new as there are apps available in the playstore with this features. This is not the first attempt of Google offering data control for mobile consumers. The company has introduced built in data saver controls on select devices, like the data save feature in its Pixel phone.
Real-time analytics
Push data to clients that gets represented as real-time counters, charts or logs.
Binary streaming
Starting in 1.0, it’s possible to send any blob back and forth: image, audio, video.
Just over 2% of Android devices in the wild are running the latest OS, compared to 80% running the latest version of iOS. Google’s ambitious plan to put an open source OS on as many devices as possible, is still in progress.
Google has taken a mighty step in helping to speed up the process of OS modification from manufacturers
The issue arises when the manufacturer decides to differentiate their products from competitors on a software-level by modifying each Android release from Google; which consumes a lot of time and effort. After this process, the software update has to be gone through carrier testing, will slow the process even further.
In order to help dilute the problem of developers’ applications not having access to new APIs on the many devices running older versions of Android, Google unbundled many of them from the OS itself and start delivering them in ‘Play Services’ updates deployed through Android’s built-in app store.
