Android Fragmentation state. Did Google fix it?

In Android 13 a new feature called <a href="https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/photopicker" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Photo Picker</a> appeared. It allows applications to access individual user photos and videos without giving them full access to the photo/video or the entire memory of the device. This is a good feature for limiting an application’s access to a user’s personal data. It was immediately announced that this feature would also work on Android 11 and newer (with support for <a href="https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Mainline</a> updates), and later its support was added to all devices with Android 4.4 and above via Google Play Services. I immediately asked myself, why hasn’t it been done before? And the answer is simple — Android didn’t allow to implement this, because Google was struggling with fragmentation and working on the possibility of an independent update of Android, it became a reality. <a href="https://proandroiddev.com/android-fragmentation-state-0e7be1649e66">Website</a>