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    News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Android 4.0 source-code has been released for the x86 architecture.
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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    I look forward to trying this out!

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Interesting

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    I've never seen anyone wrap git up in something else... what is this "repo" business? http://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Could we see motherboard manufacturers release versions of ICS bundled in for free?

    I can imagine when Google merges Chrome OS with Android, I can imagine many of the Acer Aspire Revo PC's coming with Android VESA mounted on to a touch screen PC.

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Someone run Android ICS x86 vs ARM on similarly priced hardware... that'll be an interesting one.

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    I've never seen anyone wrap git up in something else... what is this "repo" business? http://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html
    It's a simple git wrapper which rolls the several android git repositories into one 'repo' meta-repository and manages them all.
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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Android x86 is really nice but it has some really big problems that hamper it

    Main issue is apps have to be compiled for x86, getting onto the official market place is difficult and when you get there nothing works.

    Other issues i've seen is mainly with the broadcom wireless drivers, since broadcom wont let anyone distribute the drivers you have to compile your own build a lot of low cost devices (netbooks) use broadcom 4000 series chips and wireless drivers are really something you cant live without. (They did get it working with some builds of 2.3 but its broken again in 3.2)

    Other issue is with auto rotation, some apps will rotate the screen and then leave it there, without an accelerometer it doesn't realise its wrong and gets stuck there.

    I have run various builds of a-x86 on my compaq netbook, with the atom 1.6 and 2gb of ram it really zips along a lot faster than my galaxy s (340mb of usable ram).


    The lack of flash plugin in all builds is a downer though, then again arm devices don't have flash on 4.0 yet

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Quote Originally Posted by keithwalton View Post
    The lack of flash plugin in all builds is a downer though, then again arm devices don't have flash on 4.0 yet
    and based on recent announcements.......it never will have. Flash development for mobile OSes has ceased.
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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    Someone run Android ICS x86 vs ARM on similarly priced hardware... that'll be an interesting one.

    Tarinder?
    dangerous, such a review could alter the tide of the ARM vs x86 argument, can you imagine the damage caused when Tarinder announces that in a comparison between x86 and ARM Android devices, Reggae Reggae Sauce beats both hands down.

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    would love to try just got some insane college work going on

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    Re: News - Android 4.0 hits the x86 PC platform

    In case anyone is wondering how big the entire android repositories are:
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    aidan@aidan-laptop ~/Documents/Development/Android $ du -sh
    9.4G	.
    And at ~200KiB/s and a whole heap of connection errors, needless to say it took quite a bit of time to finish. I guess the release of ICS means they're getting hammered by syncs and inits.
    Last edited by aidanjt; 02-12-2011 at 01:41 AM.
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