Published on: 2025-05-14 02:30:15
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 adds support for running media codecs outside of their usual sandboxed process and within the app’s process. Doing this reduces the amount of inter-process communication that needs to typically happen between the app and codec process, thereby reducing CPU usage and thus power consumption. However, this opens the door to security exploits, which is why codecs need to be written in a memory-safe language like Rust for this to be allowed. Whe
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