It’s irony? Huawei plays a role in Android 13 with file system

When Huawei became the target of US restrictions on the company, it ended up losing access to Android and all of its features. This turned out to be one of the most important measures, but the brand surpassed it.

Huawei was expected to stay away from anything related to Android, but something curious happened. It seems ironic, but Android 13 will use a component created internally by Huawei and it will be necessary. We’re talking about EROFS, your file system for mobile devices.

Huawei has always been recognized as one of the companies that invested the most in innovation and new technologies. The bottom line of this investment is access to new technologies and new ways to access these new creations that are emerging.

The proof of this comes now with a new product that will include Android 13, which is being developed by Google. This new version of this operating system will use EROFS, a file system focused on speed and performance rather than space optimization.

EROFS was released by Huawei in 2019 and integrated into EMUI 9.1, a user interface based on Android 9 Pie. At the same time, this code was added to the Linux 5.4 kernel, but remained inactive on Android smartphones, which is normal for this platform.

With the advent of Android 12, Google has fulfilled all the requirements so that everyone can support EROFS. So now this file system will be enabled by default in Android 13 and will be used by everyone.

EROFS has faster read and write speeds than EXT4, which is currently used in many devices. Also, its compression is extremely efficient and can save a lot of storage space even though there is more focus on performance.

It’s interesting to see how this situation plays out. Even without counting on Huawei, Google ends up benefiting from the company’s creations. Evidence of this is EROFS, a technology developed by Xiang Gao, a software engineer at Huawei, capable of increasing memory read speed by 20%.