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by Andrew Martonik
May 14, 2013
Developers can now benefit from Facebook's trial and error building Android apps
Following lots of development time creating a new Android build tool to aid in development of its own Android...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 28, 2013
Google has taken to its Open Source Blog today to announce that it is creating a new pledge to never use its patents related to open-source software unless attacked first.
The new pledge, offici...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 08, 2012
The Sony Xperia S has been kicking around in the Android Open Source Project for a while now. It never was an official target, but with the work from Sony and JBQ it was a usable opti...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 06, 2012
Samsung has released the source code for the 4.1 updates of the Galaxy Tab 2 (both the 10.1 and 7-inch versions) and the AT&T branded Galaxy Note 2. This consists of the parts used that are GPL ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 30, 2012
While this isn't directly Android related, it's important to support and develop open-source software on ARM devices, and this is great news. LG Electronics is joining other corporate giants l...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 03, 2012
Last month Google’s Android Open Source Project lead Jean-Baptiste Queru (JBQ) announced the launch of an “experimental” project to bring the latest open-source Android to the Sony...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 25, 2012
A bit of a mobile software bombshell dropped overnight with news that some key members of HP's newly open-sourced Enyo team moving to Google, The Verge first reported Thursday evening. Enyo, as ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 16, 2012
The confusion over the Sense 4 multitasking methods is about to come to an end, albeit in a way that many of you aren't going to like. While we were pretty confident that our investigation into ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 03, 2012
MIUI is not the ROM for everyone, we get that. But for those that do enjoy using it, things just got a little better -- Xiaomi has decided to release the source code changes and is in the proc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 27, 2012
What is open source? Open-source software is software that makes the source code freely available, for anyone to see and use. There are different open-source licenses that have different use conditi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 23, 2012
If you're an Android hacker or developer, you know about BusyBox. For the lay-people among us, it's a utility that extends the limited commands provided by the Android toolkit in the s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2011
We knew this one was coming since the AOSP sources were pushed, and Jean-Baptiste Queru again made it official on the Android Building mailing list. The Linux kernel sources for the Crespo (Sa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 16, 2011
Googler Jean-Baptiste Queru has just announced the push of Android 4.0.3 to the Android Open Source Project tree. This build is for the Motorola Xoom (U.S. Versions), the Nexus S (all versions...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 14, 2011
HTC has released the kernel source and other GPL bits for the Desire S Gingerbread update, and for the various Sensation XL versions across the globe. As usual, average and well-adjusted peopl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 09, 2011
Android just got a new friend in the open-source playground. HP today announced that the beloved-but-floundering mobile operating system will released to the open-source community.
"HP plans t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 13, 2011
The CEO of Notion Ink, Rohan Shravan, is at it again with news about the Ice Cream Sandwich source code release, saying it will be released November 17. While it's tempting to just toss th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 19, 2011
HTC has (finally) released the GPL kernel source for the myTouch 4G Slide, and they have tossed in the Gingerbread update kernel source for the Desire, and the code for the Raider 4G (Korea) kernel....
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 29, 2011
LG has released the Kernel source and assorted GPL bits for the Gingerbread build on their Optimus S device. No reports of anything showing in the LG updater tool just yet, and rumor says mid-Se...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 16, 2011
With initial funding from Google, MIT has opened their Center for Mobile Learning, dedicated "to transforming education and learning through innovation in mobile computing." The functi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2011
Anyone interested in open source development with the means to attend should check out Portland on July 25 to July 29, where O'Reily Media's annual open-source convention will be held. This year...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
The rumors that the next version of Honeycomb being right around the corner look to be true, as today Android Open-Source Project engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru has pushed the GPL portions of the 3.2 so...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 21, 2011
Samsung has posted the kernel source for the Galaxy Tab 10.1, allowing Tegra kernel developers to get to work and Tab 10.1 users to get ready for what they build for us. As usual, the average us...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 13, 2011
Samsung has released the open-source portions of the Infuse 4G OS and made it available for download at their Open Source Release Center website. As is always the case, this isn't something that...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 28, 2011
Looks like folks with rooted and hacked phones won't have to wait very long to have a crack at the Android 2.3.4 update, as the code and the proprietary binaries (radio and GPU software) have already ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Queru, AOSP engineer for Google, has verified that GPL and LGPL portions of the Honeycomb source code have been entered into the AOSP repositories. Don't get too excited though, it...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 07, 2011
Asus has released the GPL portions of the source code for their Eee Pad Transformer, and the tablet hasn't even hit the shelves yet. Just a few days after they published their support page for t...
