Guest DarthOps Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Hopefully this means that the official 2.1 rom will be available from HTC soon, fingers crossed! http://developer.android.com/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Ah I get it. That's good news. Well done everyone! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pulser Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Great News! At least of it doesn't mean an official Flan/Eclair release soon, the sources might help a chef/dev :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest commodoor Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Is this exactly the same as the nexus one? or does the Nexus has some difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GodsDevil Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Is this exactly the same as the nexus one? or does the Nexus has some difference? The SDK remains the same for all devices. The OEMs make changes in the ROMs as needed for their devices. I believe all of us here are waiting for HTC to port Sense UI to 2.1 and then Paul to get his hands on it so we can get our mitts on MCR 4.0 :) D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest commodoor Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 The SDK remains the same for all devices. The OEMs make changes in the ROMs as needed for their devices. I believe all of us here are waiting for HTC to port Sense UI to 2.1 and then Paul to get his hands on it so we can get our mitts on MCR 4.0 :) D Thnx, I can't wait till HTC releases the new rom (Its taking to long, Maybe Paul can help B)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pillock Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Thnx, I can't wait till HTC releases the new rom (Its taking to long, Maybe Paul can help :)) I do wonder what incredible things our phones could do if HTC gave Paul, Lox, Benhaam and folks like that jobs. HTC are good and all but by the very fact that others can make their phones faster/smoother/more feature-laden, there's room for improvement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GodsDevil Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 I do wonder what incredible things our phones could do if HTC gave Paul, Lox, Benhaam and folks like that jobs. HTC are good and all but by the very fact that others can make their phones faster/smoother/more feature-laden, there's room for improvement! All these guys believe in sharing and open source and that is the reason you'll never see them work for a OEM as there is too much bureaucracy and limitations on creativity there.... HTC as a company can't afford to 'test' betas on their buyers as they will get major flak if something breaks...what gives all the devs a free hand is that people in this case love to try new better stuff even at the cost of loosing some functionality. All these minor niggles are eventually fixed and everyone is happy...have you never wondered howcome we have all these beta "leaks" of firmwares before they are officially launched :) Now you know how guinea pigs must feel B) D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pulser Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 All these guys believe in sharing and open source and that is the reason you'll never see them work for a OEM as there is too much bureaucracy and limitations on creativity there.... HTC as a company can't afford to 'test' betas on their buyers as they will get major flak if something breaks...what gives all the devs a free hand is that people in this case love to try new better stuff even at the cost of loosing some functionality. All these minor niggles are eventually fixed and everyone is happy...have you never wondered howcome we have all these beta "leaks" of firmwares before they are officially launched :) Now you know how guinea pigs must feel B) D Yeah. I really wish HTC would get some kind of 'beta' program going. I'm sure most of the members here and at xda-dev would be more than happy to beta-test ROMs for HTC, on the understanding that they were not perfect. I've done beta testing for software companies before, and it was the first time the company had really used 'external' people (just customers with a long history with the company and a technical interest). They thought the feedback they got was amazing (people who hadn't coded the program were able to point out just how to improve the software, since they looked at it from a different perspective) Perhaps if HTC was a bit more open and friendly towards the devs, they could even make use of some of the enhancements from the modding community. ie. I'm sure teknologist's kernel would be a better one than stock, and I'm sure that even more of these things would come to light if HTC made the project (the whole android system) open source. But they'd never do that ;) Imagine that- two-sided information exchange. It would be too good to be true. Having someone at HTC we could contact with dev issues, and someone to listen to user feedback when things break. Wishful thinking on my part... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blackcoffee85 Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 The SDK remains the same for all devices. The OEMs make changes in the ROMs as needed for their devices. I believe all of us here are waiting for HTC to port Sense UI to 2.1 and then Paul to get his hands on it so we can get our mitts on MCR 4.0 :) D Yeah, I think Paul is waiting for the HTC release to base MCR 4.0 upon. I would imagine it's a fair amount of work for Paul to get it running from the SDK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest foxmeister Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Yeah, I think Paul is waiting for the HTC release to base MCR 4.0 upon. I would imagine it's a fair amount of work for Paul to get it running from the SDK. The SDK allows you to build *applications* for Android 2.1 - it is not Android 2.1 in and of itself. In order to build the OS itself, Google need to release the OS code to the AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Regards, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CursorDroid Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 The SDK allows you to build *applications* for Android 2.1 - it is not Android 2.1 in and of itself. In order to build the OS itself, Google need to release the OS code to the AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Regards, Dave This is AOSP 2.1. I'm building a ROM from source for 32A Magic right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest foxmeister Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 This is AOSP 2.1. I'm building a ROM from source for 32A Magic right now. Are you sure? Last news I heard on AOSP was the partial release of 2.0.1 (See here) and I can find nothing regarding 2.1 on AOSP. Regards, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevenz Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 (edited) At any rate, AOSP source is not the same as an HTC rom to pull widgets etc. out of. So even if we do have AOSP 2.1, it's still going to only give us a bare "Android" 2.1 ROM, not an "HTC" 2.1 ROM. We've already got a plethora of 2.0/2.0.1 based ROMs floating around as evidence. 2.0.1 != 2.1 - 2.0.1 is a patch version of 2.0 and should be 100% backwardly compatible with 2.0, whereas 2.1 is a completely separate subversion with different features and there will likely be some backwards compatibility issues due to an increased feature-set. From what I can see there's still no 2.1 source released to AOSP, just the same 2.0.1 that people have been building from for the past few weeks. xda would be going nuts if AOSP 2.1 dropped. Edited January 13, 2010 by stevenz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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