Keeping its promise of releasing express software updates for its devices, YU has now announced that its smartphones will receive the Android Marshmallow update in the next few weeks.
YU Televentures has announced that the YU Yureka, YU Yureka Plus, YU Yuphoria and the YU Yunique will receive the stable Android Marshmallow update within the next 30 days. In the meanwhile, users can right away download the beta version of the Marshmallow update for their YU devices and flash the update manually. Users need to visit developer.yuplaygod.com to download the update.
Meanwhile, YU has launched the ‘Project Highway’ which will be curating source codes from multiple drop points, such as Google’s AOSP repos, Chipset Vendors Repos, Various ROMs (where the community developers contribute), Internal YU customization and finally creating one manifest which will be able to support all YU based devices and other Android devices too.
Speaking about the initiative, Rahul Sharma, CEO, YU, said, “Developers and contributors have been special to us. When we rolled out ‘Project Highway’, we wanted to get as many people on board as possible. Pleased to share that developer.yuplaygod.com is live as of NOW and happy to share today we are making available the open-sourced OS for YUREKA/YUREKA PLUS, YUPHORIA and YUNIQUE and Inviting all the developers to participate and contribute to YU-OPEN-OS.”