For Android, they're proposing GKI module shims that a vendor can code against. So a vendor plugs a binary blob into, say a 5.4 GKI module, which is hopefully forward compatible with the interface to a 6.25 GKI module released sometime in 2026.
They are, but it is only post Android 10, so it will take years before it matters at all.
As an example, Vulkan was added in Android 7 as optional API, the adoption was so low, with so many buggy drivers that as of Android 10 it became a compulsory API.
On Android everything that Google leaves the OEMs free reign hardly gets done.
As an example, Vulkan was added in Android 7 as optional API, the adoption was so low, with so many buggy drivers that as of Android 10 it became a compulsory API.
On Android everything that Google leaves the OEMs free reign hardly gets done.