Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code

Google has announced the new Google Android OS Version 4.0 which is call Ice Cream Sandwich. A lot more features has been added to this new android. So, developers are waiting for the source code so that they could start working and developing new application for Android 4.0.It looks like Google will soon release the code for Ice Cream Sandwich to the Android Open-Source project.Thanks to a Google+ post penned by Jean-Baptiste Queru, the Technical Lead of the Android Open Source Project, and his link to an email written by Google engineer Dan Morrill, we do indeed have confirmation that Android 4.0 source code will see the light of day. “We plan to release the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once it’s available on devices”, Morrill said in his Google Groups post.

Later this week google officially announced the Android 4.0 in HongKong AsiaD conference. Ice Cream Sandwich with the new release of Samsung Galaxy Nexus the first phone which will run with the Android OS 4.0.

While Ice Cream Sandwich may usher in a new era of awesomeness for Android, developers were quick to note that the introduction ceremony (so to speak) was lacking in the release of any and all Ice Creamy source code. Some wondered if Google would take the same approach to Android 4.0 that it did to its predecessor, Honeycomb, and avoid releasing the source code to the public.

At the time of its release, Google decided not to make Honeycomb available due to its being targeted at tablets, and, as Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin told BusinessWeek: “To make our schedule to ship the tablet, we made some design tradeoffs … we didn’t want to think about what it would take for the same software to run on phones”. Google didn’t want to take a chance of “creating a really bad user experience”, so it kept Honeycomb’s code out of public hands.