Developers bring it to G1

Nov 16, 2009 07:33 GMT  ·  By

Android 2.0, the latest flavor of Google's operating system for mobile phones, has been released on Motorola DROID for more than a week now, while the SDK went available a few days before the handset's launch, and now we learn that Google also released the Android 2.0 source. The best part here is that, as soon as Google made the source available, some developers already ported it to the older T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), the very first mobile phone to come to the market with Android on board.

According to some of the news around the web, the release of Android 2.0 source code has been saluted both by developers and by manufacturers, mainly due to the fact that Google hasn't provided access to it before. However, Motorola and HTC are reported to have had previous access to the code, though developers only saw Android 1.6.

Now the source code for Android 2.0 has been delivered to the Android Open Source Project. And since we've mentioned the T-Mobile G1, we should also mention that developers pushed the code on this device very soon after. The image attached to this article shows Android 2.0 on G1, although it might not look like something very special.

According to a recent article on mobilecrunch, some of the people who brought Android 2.0 to G1 say that all is working well, and that the audio/video playback would be the only thing that does not run as it's supposed to. However, there are great chances that the problem will be taken care of in the very near future, since the code was ported to the handset in such a short period of time.

Those who would like to learn more about the Android operating system as open source should head here for details. Besides info, they will also learn how to get the source code from there. The Android 2.0 SDK, which was released more than a week ago, can be downloaded for Windows computers, Linux-based ones, or for Macs.