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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. 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.

  2. 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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    Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
  3. 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.