This is a great day for all the developers out there. Currently any ROM that you are running that is based on Android 4.0.4 comes from an update that is from another device. It was never a direct source build of the OS. Not that it ever stopped anyone from putting it together. Now those [...]

Have you ever wondered how to port an Android Open Source Project (AOSP) ROM? If so, you’ll be surprised to find out there’s not a whole heckuva lot to the process. In fact, Mr.Highway from XDA is so confident that anyone who can read and follow directions can do it that he decided to put together this [...]

The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility by the world’s most widely used (and our favorite) search engine giant, Google. This news comes to us in the form of a short blog post from the company’s VP and Deputy General Counsel, Don Harrison. “This is an important milestone in the approval [...]

We have all been following along with everything that Ice Cream Sandwich has been up to today. It has been a whole slew of things really. For a Friday, it turned out to be rather eventful. Now the most recent update to Android 4.0.3 has been pushed to AOSP. This is fairly big news for [...]

We all knew that the community would be working hard on porting the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) SDK to run on our current devices.  Until the Android 4.0 source code is dropped into the AOSP, this is the only option we have.  It works, but not as good as an AOSP builds.  They are [...]

Although I may not be a developer nor capable of understanding all the various terms and locations for what is used and needed, I still know good things when I hear it. I was recently tipped off to a post that contained a bunch of stuff that literally means nothing to me, but the world [...]

We can all assume that Amazon’s upcoming tablet will probably sell pretty well. At half the price of other tablets and sitting on equal ground with its primary competition, the Nook Color, this should be a win, win for Amazon and consumers alike. That is not really whats exciting about this product though. What excites me is the [...]

It’s great to see new developments for the T-Mobile myTouch 4G creating a pure AOSP base of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).  faux123 is working hard to create the base the currently uses bits of CyanogenMOD, but each new release is slowly removing the reliance on the CyanogenMOD code and rolling back to pure AOSP foundation. One [...]

Sometimes you just meet peoople and hit it off or just get a good feeling about them. Gridlock32404 is one of those guys I talk to frequently on GChat and is responsible for compiling the current round of CM7 source code into usable releases for around 10 of the latest and greatest super phones. He [...]

Yes you did read that correctly. Gingerbread has been ported over and is available for flashing to the Google Nexus One, thanks to an absolutely amazing developer named Chris Soyars. He has managed to get the full AOSP file packed up into a handy little ZIP file for your enjoyment. Now before you proceed, there [...]

Are you ready for a Gingerbread (Android 2.3) AOSP? If you are, I believe you are in luck. Googler Jean-Baptiste Queru is pushing the source code to AOSP right now, and everything should be completed in a few hours. If I was a betting man I would say that our Android dev’s in the community [...]

The Motorola CLIQ; once a great QWERTY-slider, but has now fallen behind in the midst of the ever-so-popular Droid family of phones, gets some love from Simply-Android forum members toxigenicpoem, with a Gingerbread SDK port, and sudo.adam with an AOSP Froyo ROM with working data/SMS/calls. With the thousands of Android users out there stuck on [...]

Still hanging on to your Droid Eris? Then we have some good news for you! For those who have not yet retired this device, you will be happy to hear about a cool project for it. A group of developers known as Team ADX has been working on Dual Rom – the first Droid Eris [...]

It seems like a true AOSP ROM for the “unhackable” Motorola Droid X is out there. A new video has surfaced showing the Droid X running an AOSP build without Motorola’s custom Motoblur framework.  It looks like it’s completely built from source. According to an XDA discussion post, a tweet was posted claiming that a true [...]

leonnib4 has released an update to [AOSP] LeoFroYo 2.0.0. The latest version is now v2.0.0. This release is supported on the following Device(s): – HTC Nexus One: Google Nexus One == ChangeLog == 2.0.0: * patch1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show…postcount=2210 – build from AOSP: android-2.2_r1.1 (SetupWizard is working thanks to Jr33!) – updated FRF91-hdpi gapps (2nd edition, smoother gmail) [...]