Google releases source code for Android

[fischju]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/21/goog ... s-android/

Making good on a promise it made at the very beginning, Google has today announced that the source code underpinning its Android platform for mobile devices is available for free to anyone who wants a crack at it. The code is being provided through the newly-announced Android Open Source Project, which will give the public at large the opportunity to make contributions to the platform's all-important core -- a first for a mobile operating system with true mass-market appeal. Theoretically, the move should position Android to benefit from a fairly democratic, speedy evolution, and it'll also give anyone with a few spare chips lying around the chance to build a smartphone of their own without shelling out a dime in licensing fees. We're really looking forward to seeing Android pop up on a whole bunch of devices for which it was never intended -- but we have to admit, in a sick, totally twisted sort of way, we're looking forward to some truly deranged individual porting Windows Mobile to the G1, too.



Pandora being a device that it wasn't intended to run on, could be useful if ported, especially with the huge community that will be making apps for it.

 

[cb88]

time to port it to the darwin kernel?!

seriously how can they expect it to really take off with symbian being closed and all?

 

[teppic]

time to port it to the darwin kernel?!

seriously how can they expect it to really take off with symbian being closed and all?

Android is based on Linux. Symbian has nothing to do with this.

 

[smr]

No one but Microsoft or the OEM will port windows to the G1. The source code is not open.

 

[Kyosys]

Damn it, they may be an evil corporation, but this is good. Google making open source software is yet another step on the way to open source dominating.

Hooray

Also, we'll get android apps on the pandora

 

[likwidoxigen]

Also, we'll get android apps on the pandora

Why not just bring the DVM (dalvik virtual machine) to the pandora. If we do that we don't have to reboot into Android to run Android apps that'd be pretty sweet.
But then again, is the DVM going to be open sourced as well?

 

[cb88]

heh.. sorry i was thinking android and symbian had merged a while back :wacko:

the DVM runs converted java bitecode (so it actually doesn't run java code)

a developer could check out the source code and see if dalvik is there... http://source.android.com/download

 

[Kyosys]

Also, we'll get android apps on the pandora

Why not just bring the DVM (dalvik virtual machine) to the pandora. If we do that we don't have to reboot into Android to run Android apps that'd be pretty sweet.
But then again, is the DVM going to be open sourced as well?

Yeah, at the time of me posting that, I didn't know that the android apps are basically just java. Well, I'm sure getting android ported will still get us some publicity, maybe?