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Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released

Posted by Unknown on from the who-doesn't-like-source-code dept.

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.

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  1. first post released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    google: a little bit less evil.

  2. Good to see... by Algae_94 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    that Google has followed through on releasing the source code. This is awesome news after Honeycomb went MIA as far as source release.

    1. Re:Good to see... by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. Re:Show me the source. by Lumpy · · Score: 4, 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.

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  4. Re:Ice Cream+Graham Crackers+Crashing by grcumb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Original submitter here. Amusingly, my slashdot nick is a mis-spelling of Graham Crumb, my non de plume. Flaky indeed.

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  5. Re:Show me the source. by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  6. You have warped sense of priorities by pem · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you put a free website as more evil than a dongle-encryped piece of crap that you pay thousands of dollars for.

  7. Re:Show me the source. by evilviper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess you didn't see the Archos range.

    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.

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