Android - OS version for different manufacturers

[Peder jensen]

I am newbie in Android, but just need to understand how Android OS works across manufactors

As I can understand There today is the latest Android 9 (pie) version which is a basic platform. Each manufacture of a phone use this default platform, but then add their own settings and end up with a more custom OS based on their device still called "pie", but can have different changes

So if fx Google make their adjustment to Pie for their product, it means they potentially can create security issues they need to update, that other manufactures don´t have in their own adjustet Pie version

Is that correct understood ?

It is just to understand that to say that even Android no matter which manufacturer is running Pie, it does not necessarily mean that they are more secure, if there is a security issue for a given product. So as such Android 8 can be even that secure than Android 9 devices depending on how the manufacturer have made their device software

 

[ocnbrze]

so each manufacturer adds more like their own skin on top of whatever google's current os is......in this case pie. each skin has their own name. Samsung with pie changed their name from Touchwiz to One UI.

also, each manufacturer adds their own level of security. samsung has knox as an extra source of security. some manufacturers are not as secure then others.....it does depend.