As reported on The Verge, the Android Open Source code to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has been released! This means that anyone can start playing about with the open source code and using it in custom ROMs and ripping out some of the Ice Cream Sandwich goodness, if they wish to...
My first reaction when reading the news was "Quick! I need to get over to android.modaco.com and see if any of the clever people have ported Android 4.0 to the ZTE Skate/Orange Monte Carlo/BAP!". Sadly at the time of posting android.modaco.com is down. Hopefully it will be back up soon and porting will be underway.
On Twitter I noticed a couple of interesting tweets from CyanogenMod, the leader/bacon lover of CyanogenMod fame: the first tweet reads as follows: "..and we're off. check back in 2 months :) #cm9 #ics" This means that the CyanogenMod community has already started working on CyanogenMod version 9 based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. They may have it ready in a couple of months. Why not check the ETA with them... (that's just a joke. The first rule of CyanogenMod is to never ask for ETAs).
The second tweet "We're still going to get CM7.2 out the door while CM9 is being worked on." means that the current version of CyanogenMod is not deprecated, there will still be one last hurrah for the Android 2.3.x Gingerbread based ROM.
[UPDATE] MoDaCo is back up and running. When I got back from work everything was where/how it was supposed to be.
As usual, feel free to leave comments and/or questions. Enjoy Android 4.0 if/when you get a taste of it!
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| Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Has Been Released! |
My first reaction when reading the news was "Quick! I need to get over to android.modaco.com and see if any of the clever people have ported Android 4.0 to the ZTE Skate/Orange Monte Carlo/BAP!". Sadly at the time of posting android.modaco.com is down. Hopefully it will be back up soon and porting will be underway.
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| MoDaCo Down! :-( |
The second tweet "We're still going to get CM7.2 out the door while CM9 is being worked on." means that the current version of CyanogenMod is not deprecated, there will still be one last hurrah for the Android 2.3.x Gingerbread based ROM.
[UPDATE] MoDaCo is back up and running. When I got back from work everything was where/how it was supposed to be.
As usual, feel free to leave comments and/or questions. Enjoy Android 4.0 if/when you get a taste of it!