Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 sources now available on CAF

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 is the latest flagship processor from Qualcomm, and its kernel, HAL, framework branch sources have finally been released on CAF.

By  Adam Conway Jul 2, 2018

Qualcomm's latest high-end system-on-chip, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, was announced late last year at the Snapdragon Tech Summit in Hawaii. With an Adreno 630 GPU, 4 efficiency cores and 4 performance cores, it's a performance beast and is the best to offer for Android phones to date. Nearly all of this year's major flagships such as the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, the Samsung Galaxy S9, the LG G7 ThinQ, and the OnePlus 6 have launched with it, and that's great for users. Qualcomm traditionally releases a lot of platform specific code on the Code Aurora Forums (CAF) which helps developers get started on building custom AOSP-based ROMs. However, the company delayed releasing the sources for the Snapdragon 845. When we contacted Qualcomm about this, we were told that they would be released in 6 weeks. That 6-week window has passed, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 platform sources are now available on CAF.