Ice Cream Sandwich source released, Waiting for CM9 Thread

[lynyrd65]

Yup, Google released the source a little earlier than expected. How long will it take for builds to make it over here?

 

[antonyfl]

unofficially, it would probably take 2 months. But considering that the CM team takes a long time to iron out all the bugs before releasing a stable version, its more like 5 months

 

[HoPPy785]

Will the CM team skip making a port of CM7 for the Fire and just go straight for CM9 or will we get both?

 

[Pulsar]

I can't wait to get ICS.

 

[ylexot]

I'd say they're going to work on root before starting on an ICS ROM on the KF.

 

[NYC Coyote]

Me thinks they will start working on devices that they already have teams for.....

Especially since One: very few of these will be in the wild till tomorrow.... and

Two: Root must be achieved first.....

Once those happens.. maybe someone will gift the members a few of them to work on it..

 

[Kelmar]

Agreed that root needs to happen first.

I'm not a developer but how hard would CM9 be when the Fire doesn't have GPS/BT/etc or would that make it easier???

 

[pkpmoa1536]

I expect root very soon; Amazon has already come out and pretty much said they are "expecting" plenty of folks to root the Fire, plus with ICS source rolling out of Mountain View, I know there are gobs of talented Devs who'll be working tirelessly this weekend.

 

[omgwtfmason]

Agreed that root needs to happen first.

I'm not a developer but how hard would CM9 be when the Fire doesn't have GPS/BT/etc or would that make it easier???

I'm not a dev either, but I'm guessing that it would probably make it easier seeing as you wouldn't have to set up those things to work

 

[NightAngel79]

i think amazon will make it as difficult as possible IMO. they want everyone using their appstore

 

[theRamenNoodle]

Have we seen a tablet-focused ROM yet? With Honeycomb still closed (right?), that leaves only Gingerbread as the latest source that could be developed.

So if I understand this correctly, there could be a lot more research involved as devs may not have worked with Google's tablet-friendly code yet.

But I'm also underestimating the developers.

 

[lynyrd65]

i think amazon will make it as difficult as possible IMO. they want everyone using their appstore

I imagine many will still use the app store as I do for the free paid apps.

Have we seen a tablet-focused ROM yet? With Honeycomb still closed (right?), that leaves only Gingerbread as the latest source that could be developed.

So if I understand this correctly, there could be a lot more research involved as devs may not have worked with Google's tablet-friendly code yet.

But I'm also underestimating the developers.

With the release of ICS source yesterday they also released the Honeycomb source code as well. The main issue devs face besides new code is the shear size of the code. It will take three times longer to build from the code.

 

[JBiz227]

I love me some CM, but if I get bored, there's plenty of other ROMs out there to occupy my time until we start seeing some ICS builds.

It will definitely be interesting to see if/when the KF gets cracked and what the capabilities are. Maybe there's some hardware in there that isn't being utilized (like the 2nd gen iPod Touch had BT but it wasn't enabled at first).