Newsletter #19 - April 2021 (Android 11 progress) (Patreon)

First and foremost, thanks for your patience everyone!

This one took a bit longer than I expected, but things are finally back on track!

Now that the initial roadblocks have been taken care of we now have Android 11 booting on our XD+, with most basic features like WLAN, Bluetooth, Audio and GPU drivers up and running!

We aren't quite at the finish line yet though. Hardware-accelerated video decoding is currently broken (and needs a few more patches to bring it back to life), rendering streaming software like Moonlight equally broken at the moment.

On top of that the usual suspects (touchscreen button mapping, the CleanROM menu, SDCardFS fixes, HDMI output, etc) still need porting over from Android 10, which will take some time as well.

I hate giving ETAs for things like this (given my rather busy schedule and how volatile it tends to be), so I won't... Non-the-less though: Should things continue at the pace they are going right now I'd expect the first Android 11 based beta builds sooner rather than later.

And as always, I'll keep you guys posted.

- Black-Seraph