Very true. An extremely small amount of actual source code, none of it especially useful, was released with Android. The core libraries, as well as the Dalvik virtual machine, the tools, etc., were only released in binary form. The only sources provided were
- the kernel - WebKit - the QEMU-based emulator Google has stated that they won't be making any further releases of code before phones running Android ship, so that seems to be pretty much all we'll see of Android for a year or so. You could get OpenMoko running on the Android emulator relatively easily, but I don't think you'd have nearly that kind of luck running the Android software on FIC hardware. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Burton Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 5:49 AM To: Michael Schmidt Cc: List for OpenMoko community discussion; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GTK vs QTopia vs Android - (was: Re: Android needsapplications) (will be: new vision for openmoko) On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:30 +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote: > If I understand it right, the neo phone has now three options for an > operating system > - the current openmoko GTK operating system > - Qtopia from Trolltech > - Android linux from google. Last time I looked, the full Android stack wasn't open source. They say it will be, but until it is Android is a closed platform running on Linux. Ross -- OpenedHand Ltd. Unit R Homesdale Business Center / 216-218 Homesdale Road / Bromley / BR1 2QZ / UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8819 6559 Expert Open Source For Consumer Devices - http://o-hand.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community