Everybody’s wondering where the much awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code since there was no mention of a release at Samsung and Google’s Galaxy Nexus and ICS event in Hong Kong earlier today.
Luckily an Android Engineer Dan Morrill, aka morrildl decided to tell us exactly what was going on:
To reiterate, these servers contain only the ‘gingerbread’ and ‘master’ branches from the old AOSP servers. We plan to release the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once it’s available on devices.
The Galaxy Nexus will be the first Ice Cream Sandwich device and will land in stores by mid of November so we can expect the source code by then. If you’re wondering what a source code is, well it’s basically the main code Vanilla Android is based on. Custom ROM maker like CyanogenMod use this source code to create the ROMs we all love to use.
Source: Google Groups
Via: AndroidPolice
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