Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released

grcumb writes "Looks like the folks at Google have made good on their promise to release the Android 4.0 source code. Android software engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru writes: 'Hi! We just released a bit of code we thought this group might be interested in. Over at our Android Open-Source Project git servers, the source code for Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is now available. ... This is actually the source code for version 4.0.1 of Android, which is the specific version that will ship on the Galaxy Nexus, the first Android 4.0 device. In the source tree, you will find a device build target named "full_maguro" that you can use to build a system image for Galaxy Nexus. Build configurations for other devices will come later.' " Once nice side-effect of this is that the revision history for the non-free Honeycomb series is also available, albeit without any release tags.

Ice Cream+Graham Crackers+Crashing

[orphiuchus]

Come on, we all already know goes into an ice Cream Sandwich. You get two graham crackers, put ice cream between them, and serve with a side of randomly lock up my phone for no reason. Easy.

Re:Stupid projects names

[Daetrin]

Yeah! "Cupcake", "Eclair", "Ice Cream", what the hell kind of names are those? Sounds more like something from a dinner menu than a release list!

The OSS movement really needs to take a page from the book of professional companies like Microsoft. They know how to give their product versions classy names, like "Mango" [wikipedia.org]. See how much better that is?

Haters Thread

[bill_mcgonigle]

OK, here's a thread to post the links to all the haters' comments where they guaranteed that Google had gone Evil and would never release ICS source.

Granted, I full well expect six people will rebuff, stating that since 4.0.1 was released but not 4.0.0 that they were precisely correct and that this is proof of Google's evil intentions.

Re:first post released

[Anonymous Coward]

google: a little bit less evil.

No. I'm positive I read on slashdot how they are certainly Evil, and that they are intentionally with-holding the source for Sandwich as part of their Master Plan to take over the Galaxy and rule as Puppets of their Illuminati Masters.

So this is all obviously just more New World Order propaganda, designed to keep us quiet and submissive while they, and their Secret Sandwich Source, put their Military-Industrial Complex into action in order to Realize their Imperialist Capitalist Expansionist Empire.