Posts Tagged ‘android’

Google releases Andriod source

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Google has finally released the full source code of its Linux-based Android platform.   The source files are available for download at:

http://source.android.com/posts/opensource

David Bort writes on the Android page:

Even if you’re not planning to ship a mobile device any time soon, Android has a lot to offer.  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.

[via Ars Technica]

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ZDNet: Android and Symbian won’t merge

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Dana Blankenhorn comments on the recent rumours of Google’s Android and Nokia’s Symbian joining forces.

He’s betting heavily against that eventuality, and with good reason. To me, at least it seems unlikely that the two will find their way together. I’m not even sure whether it would be reasonably possible to combine both code bases, they are rather different platforms, after all.

And on a personal note to Mr. Blankenhorn, if Google were to give up Android, it could “push” the code to the Finns, not the Swedes.

ZDNet

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Summary Post (and sorry for the silence)

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Sorry for the renewed silence on this blog, it’s been a combination of being busy at work and me being lazy…  Here’s a small post of some of the stories I’ve missed.

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LiPS joins Forces with LiMo Foundation

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) is joining forces with the LiMo Foundation.  This follows announcements by many LiPS Forum members that they are joining the LiMo Foundation.

The LiMo Foundation is an industry association dedicated to creating the first open, hardware-independent, Linux-based OS for mobile devices.  The Limo Foundation is competing against Google’s Android and Nokia’s Symbian.

I4U News [via Engadget]

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