Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Source code now Available

As far as Mondays go, this one just got a whole lot better. The much anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Source code has just been uploaded and made available from our super talented developers to start playing around with. This is the same build that was leaked out a little while ago from the Galaxy Nexus, version 4.0.1. I wonder if this release will crash any servers?? Now the CyanogenMod team can get to work on CM9 and bring that icy goodness to a bunch of devices. Below is the release along with all of the links needed to get yourself up and running. Happy coding!!

Jean-Baptiste QueruÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â View profile
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Hi! We just released a bit of code we thought this group might be interested in.
Over at our Android Open-Source Project git servers, the source code
for Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is now available.
Here’s how to get it:Follow the instructions at
http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html Check out the
‘ics-release’ branch:repo init -u
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-4.0.1_r1
That’s it! However since this is a large push, please be aware that it
will take some time to complete. If you sync before it’s done, you’ll
get an incomplete copy that you won’t be able to use, so please wait
for us to give the all-clear before you sync.
This is actually the source code for version 4.0.1 of Android, which
is the specific version that will ship on the Galaxy Nexus, the first
Android 4.0 device. In the source tree, you will find a device build
target named “full_maguro” that you can use to build a system image
for Galaxy Nexus. Build configurations for other devices will come
later.
Unfortunately we still don’t have our Gerrit code review servers back
online. That remains our top priority though, and we hope to have them
back soon.
This release includes the full history of the Android source code
tree, which naturally includes all the source code for the Honeycomb
releases. However, since Honeycomb was a little incomplete, we want
everyone to focus on Ice Cream Sandwich. So, we haven’t created any
tags that correspond to the Honeycomb releases (even though the
changes are present in the history.)

JBQ, on behalf of the AOSP team.
—
Jean-Baptiste M. “JBQ” Queru
Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google.

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Woot Woot! I can’t wait to see what the following weeks bring to the Android community now. I guess Rohan Shravan was off by a few days this time. That’s ok though. I would rather he be wrong and we see it early, than him be wrong and see it late.

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