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So you missed Google I/O, and failed to get yourself a free “Ion” (Magic). Don’t despair, you may not have the shiny black bling but you can have the software.
(Update: No you can’t, my bad. That is a patch zip, not a full. BUT .. I got my hands on a system dump and built an update.zip for you guys.)
Haykuro has posted a new SPL (bootloader) that increases your system and data by about 30 megs each. Thats totally awesome.
According to the Android Developer Blog, you can now get an official prerelease of the Android 1.5 SDK. Just grab a download below the fold and give it a go! (Maybe this is the start of an open development process..? Or, more likely, they’re offering up betas finally. The good news is, it did come out – barely – ahead of the device release.)
Give it a try, post comments about how it works :)
(Update: Find the changelog/highlights below, and download links)
A lot of noise has been made recently about Android and it’s degree of “openness” (from both sides of the argument.) If you follow me here, or on the lists, or on twitter, etc, you probably already know I have strong feelings on the matter. Although I don’t usually write articles for this site (mostly it is just announcements) I had this one that I didn’t post to the lists. (It got away from me, and was mostly off-topic to the discussion.) I liked it enough to finish it, and so here you go. My take on Android, open source, and how we get this thing from a toy up to world domination.
So everyone is talking about the “G2″ (now revealed to be the Vodafone HTC Magic). Pictures, video, comment after comment.. well, here is something real for you. The first set of kernel patches just appeared in git! (Thanks to my tipster for the .. um.. tip :) .. And a big thanks to Google for getting something right – public open source code should always come before public binaries.. a lesson some other companies should take to heart..ahem*tivo**ahem..)