How difficult is it to port Android onto novel hardware?
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote: > > > I want to discuss a bit about "open" philosophy and level of openness > > provided by Android. If Android is really open platform, why it > > doesn't provide source code of middleware and built-in apps with SDK? > > The purpose of the SDK is to build applications. You do not need the > "source code of middleware and built-in apps" to build Android > applications, only to build Android firmware. > > The "source code of middleware and built-in apps" can be found on > http://source.android.com. > > > And why Google doesn't provide also tools for image creation, so I can > > create flash image myself? > > Visit http://source.android.com. > > > As for me the real openness is when I can modify let's say camera > > driver, rebuilt it, recreate image and flash it. But as I understand I > > am not able to do this with current SDK, am I? > > Visit http://source.android.com. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
