Google has announced that the source code of Android Jelly Bean is available for users and developers to download. This allows creators of custom roms to the latest version of Android to adapt.
Now the source code is released, developers can operating system changes, and new appliances. The makers of Cyanogenmod, one of the largest custom roms based on Android, have already indicated that as soon as possible, the changes of Jelly Bean together will add with their project. Thanks to this kind of custom roms can old aircraft for which a manufacturer no more updates, releases, often new versions of Android to run.
In the past, it was the release of the source code is also the time that partners of Google, like Samsung, HTC and Sony, it could get. There is now partly changed. As of Jelly Bean brings Google a few months prior to the overall release a platform development kit. This includes all the major architectural changes of the next version of Android and allows manufacturers to their firmwares already partly suitable. In the case of Jelly Bean is the pdk a few weeks ago spread.
The hope of Google is that the pdk will ensure that manufacturers their devices faster update. Now, it often takes several months before recent devices the latest version of Android.
Although the released code to compile for the older Nexus S smartphone and Xoom tablet, that devices are still no binaries available. That follow once Google the official over the air updates are released, expected later this month.