Cyanogen Mod Aims to Pull Android Away From Google

BARCELONA—Cyanogen made a dramatic announcement at Mobile Earth Congress with Mod, an integrated mobile platform that allows third-party apps to gain expanded capabilities by taking advantage of platform APIs, in partnership with Microsoft.

Essentially, what Cyanogen intends to practice is create a new runtime, to let third-party hooks to have deeper integration than typically allowed by Android.

"Thinner bezel, better biometrics, faster processors…changes never finish, yet many people are still bored with their devices. Why is this? We think people are intuitively looking for a more than natural way to collaborate with them," Kirt McMaster, CEO and co-founder of Cyanogen explains.

McMaster believes that apps these days are too limited in what they tin practice. "According to some estimates, past 2022 Android'southward scale will be greater than Facebook and iOS combined. A unmarried platform that touches over 4 billion people around the earth, enabling them to do practically everything.

"But apps, as they exist today, tin exist boring and single-minded. Mods are something entirely unlike. We are excited to be working with many partners around the globe who sympathise the new vision of computing that Modernistic enables for Android and we expect forward to seeing the innovations that ascend from it."

Cyanogen envisions people being able to become cross-app functionality through MOD. For example, a user could add together Skype functionality to their dialer, launching straight into the app to use for VoIP or use Cortana to take phonation-activated selfies. Some of these functions are already built into Google Now, merely Cyanogen partnered with Microsoft, which is keen to run into its services incorporated into Android.

"Our partnership with Cyanogen is part of our ambition to provide cracking digital experiences to customers across all of their devices, in all aspects of their lives," said Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President of Business concern Development at Microsoft. "MOD reinvents productivity for Android users by giving them access to the power of Microsoft's services in an engaging and mod way."

Cyanogen itself has never made a undercover of its ambitions to pull Android away from Google. Modernistic looks like one point of ingress into the porus Android OS. In that location are some another OEMs and MNOs on board, salivating at the idea of their apps being able to integrate into Android on a deeper level than Google would similar. To that end, there will be mod-enabled devices and Cyanogen wants to help its MNOs and OEMs out with Mod Ready, a program for hardware partners to accelerate development of mod-enabled devices. The company will provide partners with development kits and chipset compatibility info.

"Modern is a giant leap frontwards in innovative and outside-the-box thinking," said John Sculley, former Apple master and co-founder of Obi. "We are excited to work with Cyanogen to bring Modernistic Set devices to our global customers, who crave a premium user experience and an ability to customize over all else."

Cyanogen will take to strike a careful rest with the kind of services that are added. Android purists aren't the company's target, so their users may not object to the inclusion of these third-party apps and service, only there's a fine line to walk between functionality and bloat.

For the moment, the services that will be incorporated equally mods are Cortana as a voice assistant, Skype for the dialer and VoIP, Hyperlapse to shine and stabilize videos, TrueCaller for spam messages, and OneNote to have notes in the dialer, browser, email, and calender.

The Mod platform volition first rolling out in March on devices with Cyanogen OS xiii.0 or greater.

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

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