On June 26th HTC will start offering a new “Nexus experience” version of the HTC One smartphone. It’ll have the same screen, processor, and design as the original HTC One smartphone, but it’ll run a stock version of Google Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean instead of a custom version featuring HTC Sense software. That’s good news […]
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Sony now offers AOSP code for the Xperia Tablet Z
Sony is adding another device to its AOSP program. The company already offers Android Open Source Project code for a few of its latest smartphones. Now you can also get software based on Google’s Android source code for the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. That makes it the first tablet which Sony is opening up to […]
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Sony bring stock Android to Xperia Z smartphone with AOSP Project
Sony has introduced an AOSP project for the company’s Xperia Z smartphone. AOSP stands for Android Open Source Project, and basically what this means is that you can run Google’s stock version of Android on Sony’s phone if you’d prefer not to use the Sony-customized version of the software. Unfortunately at this point you’ll have […]
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Google releases Android 4.2 source code, factory images for Nexus devices
Google has started pushing the source code for Android 4.2 to the Android Open Source Project. There are also new Android 4.2 factory images for the Google Nexus 7, Nexus 10, and Galaxy Nexus devices. The Android 4.2 SDK (Software Developer Kit) is also now available. Factory images for the Nexus 4 and Nexus S […]
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Google releases Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code
Google is releasing Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code to the Android Open Source Project today. This will allow device makers to bring the latest version of Android to their phones and tablets. It will also make it a lot easier for independent developers to design custom firmware based on Android 4.1 for existing phones […]
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Android is about to get a lot faster thanks to Linaro
The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of Android that can perform many tasks between 30 and 100 percent faster than the version of Android Google 4.0 Google currently offers through the AOSP […]