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Asus releases Google Android Honeycomb source code
TAIWANESE HARDWARE FIRM Asus has released the source code for Google's Android Honeycomb operating system on the product page for its Eee Pad Transformer tablet.
On the support page for Asus' flagship hybrid tablet, anyone can download the kernel source code for the Honeycomb operating system. It is named Version V8.2.2.6 on the website and is a 97MB file. This is despite Google not releasing the code and also delaying the release of the operating system to developers.
Google has released the software development kit for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, which it made available at the end of February.
Asus is playing by the rules here, complying with the GNU General Public License (GPL) which, in simple terms, states that it must make the source code available that goes with the device.
The Honeycomb download on the Asus website isn't the full Android 3.0 Honeycomb source code, though, but it should allow developers to start developing for the device. For that matter, developers can start coding away for any other device running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, too.
Google's operating system that is specifically designed for tablets will appear on a number of devices from different manufacturers this year, such as Motorola's Xoom and HTC's Flyer. It is set to take an increasing share of the tablet market over the coming year.
The tablet, which will be one of the first tablets with Android 3.0 Honeycomb, can be pre-ordered at Amazon.co.uk, as well as at other retailers. It is priced at £379.99 without the keyboard dock and has an expected shipping date of 18 April. µ
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The Linux kernel source code is available at www.kernel.org. The ANDROID parts are not much different (if any) from previous android release (2.3.4). Google is NOT obligated (legally) to release the REST of android source code since it is APACHE license (look it up). Any/all DEVICE makers that make modifications to the LINUX KERNEL SOURCE ARE LEGALLY OBLIGATED to release the source for those modifications. READ THE GPL!!!
Ditch the sensionalistic BULLCRAP that you're using to draw attention to your NON-STORY. You haven't said anything here that THE WHOLE WORLD doesn't already know!
@Robert
Hadn't even thought of handwriting recognition. In my family, we've been on the green bandwagon as far back as I can remember. For the haters, global warming has nothing to do with it, we were on board a decade or two before that was in the press. When I write in my notebook, at lot of it is temporary stuff that's only needed for an hour or so. Sometimes one side of a page is useless stuff that I wrote down at one time, while the other side is either blank or has important information. I simply want to be able to organize the various minutaeu(sp?) a little better.
or just a jotter to write on?
If the device has enough processing power, it could be worth trying speech recognition with a Bluetooth headset for note taking
Have you - has anyone - tried Nuance's speech and handwriting "keyboard" program? (I think it's Nuance)
This is NOT the Honeycomb source code, it is the Transformer Kernel code which Asus are OBLIGED to release under the GPL...
Well researched article... Well done.
Has my dream finally come true? No, not the Navi sex dream, the other one. The one involving a tablet that can be a notebook notebook, show video and surf the internet reasonably well.
When I say notebook notebook, I mean a tablet pc with a stylus that can make the tablet double as a spiral notebook in function.
So, what do you guys think, has my dream come true?
Bookmarked in the hopes I won't simply get flamed.
This is NOT the Honeycomb source code, it's just the linux kernel sources.
Android consists of two parts: The Linux kernel + Android User Space. User Space comes from Google. The GPL requires OEMs to release Linux kernel sources, which is what ASUS is doing here. There is no Google Android User Space code, which is what everyone normally refers to as the 'Android Open Source'.