XHE-AAC and MPEG-D DRC mandatory for Android Pie devices

Google announced the general availability of Android 9 "Pie", along with the first devices incorporating the latest release of Google's mobile operating system. Android Pie comes with a string of major upgrades in terms of audio playback, since the Extended High-Efficiency AAC (xHE-AAC) audio codec and MPEG-D DRC Loudness and Dynamic Range metadata, both substantially developed by Fraunhofer IIS, are mandatory components of the operating system. 

This opens up a world of possibilities, possibly to use Anroid tablets and mobiles to receive DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) txns using an OTG powered SDR or the onboard digital FM radio chip.

Read the Fraunhofer IIS press relase here :

http://www.audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com/xhe-aac-and-mpeg-d-drc-mandatory-for-android-pie-devices/

Here's an earlier press release by Fraunhofer IIC

FRAUNHOFER'S XHE-AAC AUDIO CODEC SOFTWARE EXTENDS NATIVE AAC SUPPORT IN ANDROID P FOR BETTER QUALITY AT LOW BIT RATES

http://www.audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com/xheaac-android-p/