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ABS: The guts of AndroidABS: The guts of AndroidPosted Apr 29, 2011 20:57 UTC (Fri) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869)In reply to: ABS: The guts of Android by vapier Parent article: ABS: The guts of Android
Oh that didn't came out right. I knew that and I wasn't referring to that specifically when I was talking on the illegal ROMs; Cyanogen is actually quite good both on a quality level and on a project level (they actually build from source, have repositories, bug trackers etc.).
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ABS: The guts of Android Posted Apr 30, 2011 7:28 UTC (Sat) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]
I think a lot of the ROM/Modder community (which often operates on the "dump rom, hack on rom, push it back" model) originated from the wince/winmobile ROM/Modder community -- something that the xda-developers site seemed focused on pre-Android.
Early on (around G1 launch) it was often puzzling to watch folks try to reverse engineer file formats that there was full source for manipulating published. I think that some of this community was so used to not having source available and only being able to fiddle with whatever files/images ship on devices that it never occurred to people to look at the source code.
ABS: The guts of Android Posted May 5, 2011 3:57 UTC (Thu) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]
Android is a major OS in mobile devices which is much more open. The modder community is not used to the usual development way in FLOSS (there are always exceptions). It would be great if these modders starts embracing the FLOSS way: providing the source code of the binary, host it on sourceforge/github if it's a bit big, build scripts (if needed), license, copyright notice, etc.
For the illegal mod... well....
ABS: The guts of Android Posted May 5, 2011 4:02 UTC (Thu) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]
You see some of the adoption of more typical open source development techniques among the Cyanogenmod folks, who host repo/git repositories, etc:
https://github.com/cyanogenmod http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#q,status:open,n,z
ABS: The guts of Android Posted May 5, 2011 19:35 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
Now if they could just figure out package management, instead of this lovely "upgrade by unzipping a new filesystem on top of the old one" system... (Obviously this is far from trivial technically, since android doesn't come divided up into separately developed packages, but it would still be a huge improvement.)
ABS: The guts of Android Posted May 5, 2011 19:39 UTC (Thu) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]
Not directly in line with this but Magnus Back (Sony-Ericsson) gave a very good talk at the Android Builders Summit on how they've been using Debian packages to put together phones for all their customers (carriers) without having to rebuild everything from scratch for every single phone variant:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/android-builders... This isn't exactly what you're requesting, but relevant still.
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