We knew the minute that the Ice Cream Sandwich source code was released, thousands of Android devs were hard at work on ROMs, ports and other projects. It looks like YouTube user pfefferzlinaro gets to claim “first” on an ICS dev build: he’s released a video of Ice Cream Sandwich running from source on a PandaBoard, output to a monitor or small television. The build is extremely early and far from functional but it is, well, first.
A PandaBoard is an ARM system-on-a-chip computer that shares a lot of hardware components with common Android phones and tablets. It’s designed to be a developer test tool – essentially, it allows devs to test their Linux or Android apps (or in this case, operating systems) before moving on to more varied hardware. The developer in question has put together a quick and dirty version of Ice Cream Sandwich just to prove that is can be done. There’s still some interesting things to be seen here, mostly in that the horizontal resolution gives us the first good look at what ICS will be like on a tablet.
Check out the video for yourself below:
You can expect more useful versions of ICS to start appearing within the next few days and weeks. It’s a good bet that the Nexus S and Nexus One will see some very quick ports, with other popular devices to follow. That said, it’ll be a few weeks before any of these ports start approaching the level of daily drivers, so keep a Nandroid backup handy if you’re the tinkering type.
Check out our hands-on looks at Ice Cream Sandwich below:
Ice Cream Sandwich Hands-on
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[via Android Central]
The code was included in the ICS source code release yesterday. Pretty much the same thing as someone compiling 4.0.1 that will ship with the Nexus Prime [ That’s my name for the Galaxy Nexus ] which was also included in the source code release.
PandaBoard is officially supported out of the box in the Ice Cream Sandwitch code based of AOSP. More info: http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html
More on pandaboard at : http://pandaboard.org