Android Finally Open Source

Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Apple announced it a long time ago, Android would be open source software. Now, Google finally opened up the source for every handset vendor to play around with.

With the source right open, handset vendors are free to change and optimize it as well as eliminate bugs that are still around. The good thing is that making it open source, will speed up development of the platform. The bad thing however might be more fragmentation for game developers in a time where the need of stable and compatible platforms is high.

The sourcecode spans over 2 gig’s of hard drive space and is ready for use on Mac OSX and Ubunto. Other OS platforms are officially not supported yet.

You can get your copy of the sourcecode directly from source.android.com/download.

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