Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google Releases Android 4.1 Source Code

Posted by Unknown on from the getting-better-each-time dept.

Unlike previous releases, where months passed between Google announcing a new version and the code being released, Google has made good on their promise to release the source code to Jelly Bean in record time. Unfortunately, the gitweb instance on kernel.org is still down so you'll have to download the entire thing to take a peek. Hopefully the Cyanogenmod team will find time to start on a community enhanced version soon.

3 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. No kidding by Jethro · · Score: 5, Interesting

    CM9 just took sooo long. In fact the final release isn't out yet.

    I just couldn't resist and put Jellybean on my Galaxy Nexus. But CyanogenMod still has a few features that are not incorporated into plain Android, nor are there apps for them. Not that I could find anyway. For example I want the battery in the status bar to show a percent number (there are apps that add that, but IN ADDITION to the regular battery), and I /love/ the Volume-Button-Long-Press-Skips-Tracks. Very very very useful while jogging. Oh and the power widgets in the pull-down, way better than the Power Control Widget.

    CM9 took so long because they had to start from scratch. They are saying that CM10 should not be NEARLY as big a deal, so here's hoping!

    --


    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
  2. Re:Number one thing i want from Cyanogen by Auroch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks! That's good to know. I haven't actually experimented much with Cyanogen yet because i've never felt to need to install it on my Nexus One. (I'm trying to hold out until the rumored five new Nexus phones this fall.) But i'm definitely going to be looking into it once i get my Nexus 7.

    You're missing out. Using vanilla android is THAT much better than most skinned versions, and using Cyanogen is THAT much better than vanilla. It's essentially ALL the options and customization you didn't realize you needed, but once you've got it, you'll never go back to vanilla.

    --
    Quartz Extreme and Core Image. Are there any other real reasons to spend all that money on generic hardware?
  3. Re:Yet by DeathFromSomewhere · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Tell that to the Nexus S owners who had to wait over 6 months for 4.0 to land on their phones. Owning a Nexus phone is not a guarantee of timely updates.

    --
    -1 overrated isn't the same thing as "I disagree".