Xposed Framework now available for Android 7.0/7.1 Nougat

Xposed Framework was extremely popular in the KitKat and Lollipop days for heavy system modification, but until today, it lacked support for Android 7.0 Nougat. While the developer shared status updates every once in a while, progress was slow thanks to major changes in Nougat's app runtime. At long last, Xposed is finally available for Android 7.0 and 7.1 devices.

The creator of Xposed, rovo89, released the updated framework today alongside version 3.1.2 of the installer app. In an interview with XDA, rovo89 stated that Nougat's new JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler drastically changed how Android's Java runtime worked. Since Xposed directly interacts with Android's runtime to modify apps, the framework had to be rewritten to fully work on Nougat. And as with many Android customization projects, from custom ROMs to root apps, the framework was being developed in rovo89's spare time.

If you have already upgraded to Android 8.0, you'll be happy to know that the developer expects the Oreo port to be completed much quicker than Nougat's. Android 8.0 didn't drastically change the runtime again, but rovo89 did point to new language features as something that needs to be tested.

For more details, and the installation instructions, check the source link below.

Source: XDA Developers

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Microsoft: Windows 10 Mobile user-base too low for App developers

After admitting that Microsoft has no intention to further develop Windows 10 Mobile and will only push Bug fixes and security updates, Joe Belfiore has also admitted that app devs are not interested as well. The tweet may sound like the “moment of truth” as this is the official admission that Microsoft has no hopes of catching up other platforms in terms of apps.

So, Joe Belfiore has revealed in his tweet how hard Microsoft has tried to incentivize apps developers. They have paid money to devs, even wrote apps for them. But the low volume of users is why most dev companies don’t want to invest.

This again is half-truth as most of Windows 10 Mobile/Lumia fans will remember how deadly was the blow offered by Nadella to the Windows Mobile ecosystem. He abruptly changed the volume strategy followed by Balmer to achieve a critical volume base for Windows 10 Mobile. This led to the current sorry situation which ultimately will take Windows 10 Mobile as we know to its grave.

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