source.android.com - 10/21/2008
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Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications. To get started with the ...
source.android.com - 10/21/2008
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source.android.com —
Today is a big day for Android, the
Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of...
the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project. You'll be hearing a lot ...
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Android is now available as open source (Android Open ...
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Google Android Source-Code Released
Phoronix —
Almost one year to the day after Google first unveiled the Android platform , they have now released the source-code to this mobile phone stack. This move is coming just one day before the first Android phone begins shipping in the US, the T-Mobile G1. The announcement came on the Android blog and the code is available from the Android Source page. The source-code to the complete Android stack is over 2GB in size and Git is needed for obtaining the source. Additionally, Python, JDK, SDL, wxGTK, and other packages are needed for building the ...
Android source code hits the web
The Tech Report: News —
... 12:09 PM on October 21, 2008 On the eve of the first Android phone launch, Google has released the source code for the mobile operating system to the public. Here's what Google's Dave Bort says about the move in the official announcement: Android is not a single piece of hardware; it's a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations. Everything is there, from the bootloader all the way up to the applications. And with an Android device already on the market, it has proven that it has what it ...
Android becomes open source
CPU3D.com / News Feed —
... they made last year and have now made Android and open source mobile platform. Provided for free via the Android Open Source Project, the Android SDK can now be used to 'port' the Android OS to multiple hardware configurations and/or help enhance the Linux-based mobile operating system. More information about the openness of Android, together with a link to the SDK can be found at source.android.com ."
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