Android goes open source

Fulfilling the promise they made from the beginning, Google has released the source for Android:

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 about Android devices. We've all put a lot of effort into the first Android device, and I'm really happy with the way it turned out. But one device is just the beginning.

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 takes to truly compete in the mobile arena.

Somewhere else, Joel said he's a bit cynical about Android, since "Google seems so unconcerned with the project." Hopefully, it being open source will make that unconcern irrelevant.

I don't know, though. I still have probably insane visions of a dual-boot, jailbroken iPhone dancing in my head.

Android is now available as open source [Official Blog]

Discussion

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#1 posted by Beamish , October 21, 2008 11:32 AM

Androis...it's French.

#2 posted by huntsu , October 21, 2008 12:07 PM

I knew Androis, what a sweetheart!

#3 posted by kvh , October 21, 2008 1:52 PM

French... wouldn't it be Androit?

#4 posted by pauldrye , October 21, 2008 6:25 PM

In French, I think it's "Minitel".

#5 posted by musicalwoods , October 21, 2008 6:51 PM

And work has already begun to port it to the NeoFreerunner.

The OpenMoko community is also looking into porting Android Apps to the OM platform.

Yay open source!

#6 posted by Anonymous , October 21, 2008 9:46 PM

Android includes a full set of tools that have been built from the ground up alongside the platform providing developers with high productivity and deep insight into their applications.

#7 posted by Anonymous , October 22, 2008 4:27 AM

As Cory said in "Scroogled" and every techie knows, there is a Google 'pet project' mandate -- I suspect both Android and Chrome to be part of that: exciting, but not worthy of *much* attention until they explode in popularity or reknown

#8 posted by jeshii , October 22, 2008 7:31 AM