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10-22-2013, 02:30 PM
Google has announced (http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/google-flexycore/) its acquisition of the French company FlexyCore, best known for its performance enhancing software, DroidBooster.
Droidbooster was an app (it’s already been removed (http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/22/farewell-fragmentation-google-shells-out-23m-for-android-boosting-company-flexycore/) from Google Play) that gave slower and older smart phones more power and much-needed acceleration. The company said that it could enhance the performance of “any Android embedded code” and make it “ten times faster,” a claim which many felt to be a bit of an exaggeration. Apparently not Google, though, which paid $23.1 million for the company.
Online demos of a very slow phone running the DroidBooster software do indeed seem to show a significant performance enhancement, particularly when interacting with animated menus and other dynamic content. In this demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bduk--UTcf4), you can see the value of DroidBooster to the consumer right away.
The value of the software to Google should be obvious: With FlexyCore under its belt, it may need to devote considerably fewer resources to optimizing the Android code base. While the general consensus is that the acquisition means we’ll see better and better performance (http://www.mobileburn.com/22132/news/google-buys-company-to-make-android-even-smoother) as FlexyCore’s code is folded into the core of Android, at least one observer has hopes that this will also mean decreased fragmentation among Android devices down the line.
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Droidbooster was an app (it’s already been removed (http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/22/farewell-fragmentation-google-shells-out-23m-for-android-boosting-company-flexycore/) from Google Play) that gave slower and older smart phones more power and much-needed acceleration. The company said that it could enhance the performance of “any Android embedded code” and make it “ten times faster,” a claim which many felt to be a bit of an exaggeration. Apparently not Google, though, which paid $23.1 million for the company.
Online demos of a very slow phone running the DroidBooster software do indeed seem to show a significant performance enhancement, particularly when interacting with animated menus and other dynamic content. In this demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bduk--UTcf4), you can see the value of DroidBooster to the consumer right away.
The value of the software to Google should be obvious: With FlexyCore under its belt, it may need to devote considerably fewer resources to optimizing the Android code base. While the general consensus is that the acquisition means we’ll see better and better performance (http://www.mobileburn.com/22132/news/google-buys-company-to-make-android-even-smoother) as FlexyCore’s code is folded into the core of Android, at least one observer has hopes that this will also mean decreased fragmentation among Android devices down the line.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (http://cdmagurus.com/article/2056558/google-acquires-android-optimization-firm-flexycore.html#jump)
More... (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2056558/google-acquires-android-optimization-firm-flexycore.html#tk.rss_all)