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Android source available

Posted Oct 21, 2008 20:49 UTC (Tue) by thoffman (subscriber, #3063)
In reply to: Android source available by bcbarnes
Parent article: Android source available

Dude.

This is hardly a consumer product. We're talking about a developer SDK here. Now, if Google released some consumer level Linux software, (e.g. Picasa) that only worked on one distro, I could see a little more cause for complaining, but this is for developers.

If a developer can't either:
(1) set up a VM or dual boot or new machine with Ubuntu to work with Android, or,
(2) Cooperate with the community to fix whatever little issues are required to make the Android SDK work on their distro of choice

then... how useful a developer are they anyway?

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Android source available

Posted Oct 22, 2008 15:27 UTC (Wed) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

It's not the "SDK" - that is available, like it should be, for Mac, Windows and Linux. The SDK is what you need to write programs for Android. This is the source code release - what you need if you want to rebuild the whole deal. Not many people really need that, and hey - it's open source isn't it, I'm sure some enterprising Fedora users can hack it to work there and send in patches.