Google Open Sources Android 4.0

[Ringel05]

The code for the latest version of Android — 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich — is now in the wild.

This is a huge deal for a few reasons.

For one, Android 4.0 includes some major improvements over both Gingerbread and Honeycomb, which are the versions of Android that are shipping on current Android devices. These include new API calls, performance improvements, and more.

But more important: it’s the first time Google has open-sourced a version of Android that’s optimized for tablets as well as phones. Now, obviously devices running Android 3.x Honeycomb have been around since early this year. But Google opted not to release the source code for Honeycomb. The reason? It had been thrown together quickly, and Google had to take some shortcuts to get it out the door (they were also concerned that third parties would try to port Honeycomb back to phones, which it isn’t suited for).

Google Open Sources Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich | TechCrunch

 

[PeteEU]

Man I am looking forward to getting Icecream Sandwich on my Transformer weeeeeee

 

[Uncensored2008]

Thus endith the dominance of the iPad......

Good move by Google, this will spawn a plethora of new tables and flood the market with Android.