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[REF]Android is now Open Source[Code released]

Android was announce as Open Source 6 hours ago.
Anybody now can download and work over Android.
http://source.android.com/
Let's work together to bring the Android to our loved Elf(in)!
Good luck!
Sry for the english.

Android is now available as open source
Oct 21, 2008 7:52 AM posted by Dave Bort [updated Oct 21, 2008 9:59 AM by Dave Bort]
Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project.
You'll be hearing a lot about Android devices. We've all put a lot of effort into the first Android device, and I'm really happy with the way it turned out. But one device is just the beginning.
Android is not a single piece of hardware; it's a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations. Everything is there, from the bootloader all the way up to the applications. And with an Android device already on the market, it has proven that it has what it takes to truly compete in the mobile arena.
Even if you're not planning to ship a mobile device any time soon, Android has a lot to offer. Interested in working on a speech-recognition library? Looking to do some research on virtual machines? Need an out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution? All of these pieces are available, right now, as part of the Android Open Source Project, along with graphics libraries, media codecs, and some of the best development tools I've ever worked with.
Have a great idea for a new feature? Add it! As an open source project, the best part is that anyone can contribute to Android and influence its direction. And if the platform becomes as ubiquitous as I hope it will, you may end up influencing the future of mobile devices as a whole.
This is an exciting time for Android, and we're just getting started. It takes a lot of work to keep up with the changes in the mobile industry. But we want to do more than just keep up; we want to lead the way, to try things out, to add the new features that everyone else is scrambling to keep up with. But we can't do it without your help.
What will you do with Android?

Damn....i read a bit and then realised this is not gonna work for the Elf
Elfin users yes but not elf......... maybe someone can hack it for elf users or provide a workaround

Please maintain subject line as per posting policy in the announcement. I have edited the same right now in spirit of this discussion. Please bear in mind for further times

Looking for an experienced web/phone developer

I'm not sure where to put this, or even if it's appropriate for XDA, but I love this community and I know there are a lot of talented developers here, so I figured I'd try. If I can't do this here, please slap me on the wrist and lock the thread. I'm hoping that's not the case though.
If you've ever wanted to be the man behind the idea, here's your chance.
I'm in the process of building a proposal to Boulder, Co TechStars to get funding (micro-investment) for a new web project (I'm a developer and a salesman ;-D), but they recommend you play your powers, and have at least a team of two (they rarely accept single founders), so I'm looking for a cofounder. If you like the project and it takes off, 50% of everything is yours. No red tape, no gimmicks.
This will be HARD. It's a big project and you don't get paid until the project launches (don't worry, I won't either haha). Consider this a night-light project until it launches.
I need someone with experience in the following
LAMP, including PHP and MySQL development
HTML, CSS, XHTML, DHTML
Javascript/jQuery
API's/XML/SOAP
RSS
Domain Wildcards and CNAME
Java, smali/baksmali and everything else involved in Android development (which I don't think anyone here will have a problem with)
Objective-C for iPhone
GeoData/Geolocation and Geo-integration
Prefer experience (but nowhere near required) also in:
XCode for iPhone development
Extended JS libraries
C#
J2ME/Mobile development
XNA / Visual Studio (for XBOX!)
Dreamweaver (Yeah, I know.... but it's easy to collaborate, easier to navigate than Aptana, more free-form and cheaper than Zend - we're on a budget and a timeline)
Screen Readers/section 508, accessibility
There will be no monetary compensation until either the project launches or we get funded by techstars - and IF we get funded by techstars for techstars 2011, you'll need to spend 3 months in Boulder for the event while we get funding, resources and mentorship for the project, so again, please be ready for this to be a night-light project for awhile, but if you're ready for it - reply with some information about you (or send me a private message), with your skills and history and the kind of time you have to devote to this project
The project is already patent pending, and if you want to discuss it at length you'll need to sign an NDA.
As for the XDA community - I love you guys and once we're in a functioning alpha, we'll selectively pick XDA users to test and give us feedback, beta will be open to all XDA members for free, and once we go live, beta testers get a free account for life.

Official kodi™ foundation Help

Kodi™ Foundation are ready to end Android support and development !!
ARE YOU ????
Call out for developers
As you may or may not know is that Kodi is maintained by a group of volunteers since its first inception dating back to the original XBOX days. Over the years many volunteers have spent countless days if not months on every aspects of what makes Kodi great. This consist of writing and maintaining the code base of Kodi, expanding to new platforms, maintaining the forum, wiki, website and download server and more……
So why do we need you? Well the fact is that over the years the core team of Kodi has remained about the same size while the amount of users went from couple of thousand to many, many millions. Not forgetting the fact that it went from only a XBOX application to what is now running on Linux, Windows, iOS, OSX, Android. All this still with the same amount of people. Now comes the time that we will actually start calling out for some help. To put it simple we want to ensure that Kodi remains alive on all platforms while at the same time lowering the support burden each developer now faces these days. Each of the core developers has his own specialty and since Kodi is quite big you quickly run out of developers that know enough of certain sections. Add to that the changes needed for each operating system upgrade that happens and all the problems that arise with that.
To put it in perspective we basically have only 1 developer for each section or even complete platform. As already mentioned the entire team consists of volunteers which means everything is done in their spare time next to having an actual day time job and a personal life. This results in having only a few hours at most to spend on what they see as their hobby which i can say they are passionate about.*Over the years the team consisted of many different developers who gave all they could but due to whatever reason had to change priorities which resulted in not spending time in Kodi anymore.
So in short what we are looking for are C/C++ developers who are willing to put in some of their spare time in maintaining and improving our core code. This can either be doing some minor bugfixing, reviewing existing pull requests for code contributions or even creating some of their own code refactoring or feature additions. It really doesn’t matter if you are just a student just starting out on C/C++ or are already a senior programmer. We would welcome anyone who is willing to do their part on any improvement that is needed. A fair warning is that our codebase isn’t for the faint hearted as it’s quite massive and we are quite strict regarding code review before we merge anything. However don’t let this frighten you off as our current (or outside developers) will certainly give you pointers on improvements to get it included.
What we currently need most are developers with knowledge of the following components to improve current implementations:
• Windows DirectX11 / audio / video•*Android NDK / audio / video• iOS & OSX / audio / video• General knowledge of C/C++ and willing to do some coding in areas of their interest.
Any bugfix can be send to our main github code repository for review straight away. If you are not sure or want to take on a bigger task or change feel free to open up a thread on our forum where you write down your proposal to get some initial feedback.
Wiki pages to get you started:*http://kodi.wiki/view/Development
Forum:*Developer sucbsection
Code on Github:*https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc
Regards As Always

My Team Values – Team building

Forget about those expensive collaboration tools and try the innovative team building app My Team Values. With its tested, one-of-a-kind features and method, it will take your teamwork skills to a whole other level! Go through the unique process of testing and get an assessment report with the parts of your personality you need to work in order to become a better team player.
• THE STORY BEHIND MY TEAM VALUES
Nowadays it is a well-accepted notion that giving the team collaboration software is enough to achieve better productivity and team chemistry. However, many examples have shown that just giving a team new innovative technology is not going to ensure that they will work together more effectively. In order to do so, they have to want to work together better before the new technology can really help make a difference. My Team Values is not a collaborative platform, instead it offers multiple ways to improve team work.
• TEAMWORK AND TEAMBUILDING ON ANOTHER LEVEL
As a teamwork application that tends to improve the teambuilding and teamwork skills, My Team Values offers a unique system. This app helps users to clarify, confirm and communicate your personal values - and possible ways to satisfy them better - within the context of being a member of any specific team.
You'll find ways to better manage and improve the team-related experiences in your life. It’s indeed a great teamwork tool.
• IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ACTION
Think about it, just because you can download this innovative app doesn’t mean you will download it.
And even if someone puts it onto your mobile device for you, that doesn’t mean you’re going to use it.
But using it, you can make really good changes in how you collaborate with a team. The app can help you and your team mates collaborate more effectively. Only when you know why people want to work together can you choose the right tools to help them do so. So don’t waste your time, money and energy on clever collaboration tools until after you know more about what makes you and your team mates tick as members of your team.
• HOW IT WORKS:
- Each team member/user needs to create an account and determine at least 1 teamwork value
- Once determined, each team member’s values are considered within context of the team’s current situations; for example, what needs improving and possible ways to address this
- the app will generate a report for each team member at the end with all those values, thoughts and ways to improve them
- the report will be received in a .pdf format which is printable and can be kept as a document.
• WHO IS IT FOR?
For any company that has a team. The team work and the teambuilding activities are what creates the foundation for achieving the end result of any project. Thus, the members who would like to meet/exceed their personal satisfaction criteria for teamworking are the core target group for using this app. It can really upgrade their teamworking skills and using My Team Values can be one of the best new team building activities and tools in your company.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mvalues&rdid=com.collaborationhost.teamvalues

Community day with hackathon for the Volla Phone with custom ROM

Hello,
I'm Marc Aurel and I'm working with some other developers on the Volla Phone with a custom Android without Google Apps and Play Services. In addition to privacy protection the focus is a new simplified user experience beyond the app centered paradigm of current mobile operating systems.
We'll soon publish our code to invite developers to join the project or just have a look, what we are doing. We want to invite developers to our 2nd community days from 6 to 7 of June with a hackathon. You can find the announcement of the event with a live stream right here in our blog post. https:// volla.online /blog/files/community-days-2020.html
As a developer I will have some questions and I'm happy to answer some questions. I work on the launcher of the Volla OS, implemented with Qt, by the way. So I may can help or exchange experiences with developers working with this technology.

Very nice to see a phone that ships without any Google stuff out of the box. As many users switch to open source operating systems to avoid bloatware and manufacturer stuff sniffing their privacy this is a great project!
I hope the announced hackathon will result in many good ideas and approaches to improve the OSs compatible with the phone (as it also will support Ubuntu touch).
I'm looking forward to hear the results!

SHA_NDY said:
Very nice to see a phone that ships without any Google stuff out of the box. As many users switch to open source operating systems to avoid bloatware and manufacturer stuff sniffing their privacy this is a great project!
I hope the announced hackathon will result in many good ideas and approaches to improve the OSs compatible with the phone (as it also will support Ubuntu touch).
I'm looking forward to hear the results!
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Thanks you for your motivating replay. We'll soon publish our source code of the Android based Volla OS after we have already published our source code for the Ubuntu Touch port in GitHub..
Beyond a discussion on measures to improve data protection, for which short presentations are welcome, we would like to explore ways to improve the user experience in the hackathon. One challenge will be the implementation of a system-wide sidebar that can be displayed with a border gesture. I'll post screenshots as soon I have the rights to post links.

Here the announcement for the community day:
https://volla.online/blog/files/community-days-2020.html

We have prepared an event page, that will be updated soon. You find it on volla.online/vcd2020 for Volla Community Days 2020. We hope to have participants of the Android developer community for our hackathon.