: A high-ratio compression format. You must decompress this (using a tool like 7-Zip or ) to get the actual file before you can flash it to a phone. If you are looking at this file, you likely have a

Flashing a GSI requires technical care. A mistake can temporarily soft-brick your device. Below is the general workflow used by developers. Step 1: Decompress the Image

Project Treble separated the (drivers and hardware code) from the Android OS Framework . This image is a "Generic" version of that framework. Because of Treble, you can take a system-arm32-binder64-ab image and flash it onto a Nokia, a Xiaomi, or a Motorola, and it should—in theory—boot the latest version of Android regardless of the brand. Who is this for?

Each part of the filename describes a specific technical requirement for the device it is intended to run on:

: Install the latest ADB and Fastboot binaries on your PC.