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As Promised, Google Releases Android Code as Open Source for Tinkering

Posted 10/22/08 at 02:27:07 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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Coders, start your engines. The long awaited release of the Android source code has come to an end, thanks to the Android Open Source Project. The announcement, which was made just yesterday, hopes to potentially influence the future of mobile devices as a whole. Pretty ambitious!

“Even if you're not planning to ship a mobile device any time soon, Android has a lot to offer,” writes Dave Bort (are they out of license plates in the gift shop?) on Androiod’s blog, “Interested in working on a speech-recognition library? Looking to do some research on virtual machines? Need an out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution? All of these pieces are available, right now, as part of the Android Open Source Project, along with graphics libraries, media codecs, and some of the best development tools I've ever worked with.” He continues to encourage anyone with a great idea for a new feature to simply add it. Given the nature of the open source project, anyone can influence Android.

Some big ups have to go out to Google on this one, making Andrioid perhaps one of the easiest development tools to acquire. Considering it’s free to license and now the entire source code is available to anyone that wants it, perhaps their dream of world domination is only a few developers away.

 

Image Credit: Google

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TAGS: Software, Google, open source, android, Development
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avatarI purchased an Android G1

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 2:44am

I purchased an Android G1 Bronze phone today at it is good. Hallowed be thy name. I was showing my coworkers how I could browse all kinds of stuff on my phone. It is good and the G1 is freaking awsome. This phone needs a tear apart in the mag to show all what makes it tick.

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avatarHey the Android phone HTC G1

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 12:59pm

Hey the Android phone HTC G1 is out now. My local T-Mobile has plenty in stock becaus I live in the piss poor part of town. They told me that my phone is only a year old so I have to pay full price minus $50bucks instant rebate. So thats a grand total of $349 bucks plus an 8.8% sales tax so that makes it like $700dollars or something like that. Well tomarow is payday and I'm getting one I just hope the bank doesn't repo my Ford Explorer.

BTW I have a Motorola W490 black cell phone for sale. No scratches.. 

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avataris M$ gonna buy skype now

Submitted by xs0u1x on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 12:17pm

is M$ gonna buy skype now and put out a skype cellphone service with ms live on it. im assuming they'd have home version with just a simple call function and voicemail.....caller id is a $50 add on that has to be updated every year. the business ultimate uber edition would be about $700 to buy, and $300/mo with all the amazing features of the home version.....but with a badass solitaire game.....and paint. woot woot i cant wait to sell blood each month to afford that puppy......

 

 

but this IS pretty cool for google.

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