Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released 285
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.
first post released (Score:2, Interesting)
Good to see... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Show me the source. (Score:5, Interesting)
Screw that. When does the AndroidX86 version get released? I need to upgrade my home made Car stereo that runs Android.
I can finally get rid of the crud hack of adding on screen buttons for volume, back and home.
Re:Ice Cream+Graham Crackers+Crashing (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Show me the source. (Score:2, Interesting)
Yeah, but MIUI just uses CM code and adds closed-source tweaks. Perfectly in their rights, but still a little sleazy IMO.
Re:Good to see... (Score:3, Interesting)
That would be why none of Ice Cream Sandwich other than the kernel is under the GPL. They didn't 'build off GPL software', in fact they went to the extreme of writing their own libc in order to avoid that. The 'some code they did not strictly have to' is basically all of Android's userland.
You have warped sense of priorities (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Show me the source. (Score:4, Interesting)
Yes I did. In fact my rant about low-res screens and crappy unresponsive touchscreens is directed SQUARELY AT ARCHOS.
"Capacitive" isn't a magic keyword that makes it not-suck. The cheap ones are still a nightmare to use, and since that's the sole form of input, the whole device becomes worthless.
That wasn't the only issue, btw. Other big issues were the lack of a compas, lack of GPS, inability to charge, AT ALL from USB, a power socket DIRECTLY next to the headphone jack, a power plug exactly the same size as a headphone jack (see where we're going, here?) super-slick case and absolutely no ergonomics making it impossible to hold, being much heavier than comparable devices.
I consider Archos tablets the canonical example of crap that I wouldn't use if they were giving it away, and here you're trumpeting them as first-class devices.