World’s First Rust Codec Implementation for Google Android

Fraunhofer IIS, the provider of Android’s FDK AAC audio codec implementation for over a decade, has been selected by Google, Inc. as the first media codec developer to deliver a native OS, memory safe, Rust decoder implementation that’s now available in Android 17.

Discover tomorrow’s media technologies at CES 2023

Products and solutions developed by Fraunhofer IIS are indispensable in any field of the audio landscape: We want to make great audio experiences easy and accessible, and we want to cooperate with manufacturers to bring state-of-the-art audio technologies into their products. The current generation of Fraunhofer technologies enables the creation, transmission, and experience of an entirely new...