The Chinese developers behind the MIUI ROM and app suite for Android devices have announced that they’re opening the source code for their software. MIUI is a custom version of Android that, quite frankly, looks a lot like iOS. The default MIUI home screen, for instance, replaces common application icons of all shapes with square icons — and there’s no app drawer. Instead all of your… Read more »

HP has announced plans to release webOS as an open source project soon, but while the source code isn’t available yet some folks have already started working to port webOS to run on hardware originally designed to run designed for different operating systems. WebOS-Internals member Ryan Hope posted a few pictures today of an HTC Evo 3D running a buggy build of webOS 3.0 today…. Read more »

Google has released the source code for Android 4.0. This is the first version of Android designed to run on both smartphones and tablets — but the version being released today is designed specifically for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. The Nexus S will be the first product to ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but now that the source code is being released it… Read more »

Google’s Dan Morrill has confirmed that the company will be releasing the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The company is just waiting until it’s “available on devices,” which means that sometime after the Samsung Galaxy Nexus starts shipping in November we should see the source code released. It used to go without saying that Google would release the source for each… Read more »

VLC is a popular open source audio and video player for Linux, Windows, and Mac computers. There’s also a version for Android in the works, and earlier this month the developers launched a private beta. But if you didn’t get in on the beta, you can still test out an early alpha build of VLC. The folks at VideoLan have offered instructions for compiling the… Read more »

The developer behind one of the coolest jailbreak utilities around has released the source code. This allows anyone to examine how the exploit works, and possibly to improve upon it. JailbreakMe 3.0 provides the easiest way to jailbreak an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 4.3.3 or earlier is to use JailbreakMe 3.0. Basically you point your mobile web browser at a web site,… Read more »

Google has released the portions of the Android 3.2 source code which are licensed under the GPL. Just like earlier versions of Google Android 3.x Honeycomb, Google is not releasing all the source code for the latest version of the operating system. You’ll have to wait until the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android is released to get that. But the latest release means two… Read more »

One of the key components of Google’s Android operating system is the Dalvik virtual machine which is required to run Android applications. But now there’s a new open source project called In-The-Box which brings Dalvik to iOS, allowing you run Android apps on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. The process isn’t all that simple at this point, and the project is really geared at… Read more »

Google Android boss Andy Rubin has finally made it clear: Google Android 3.x Honeycomb source code will not be released to the public. The company has been making the source code available to some tablet manufacturers, but while source code for all earlier versions of Android were eventually added to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Google has no plans to the same with Honeycomb…. Read more »

Google will start pushing out the newest version of Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread to the Nexus One and Nexus S smartphones in the coming weeks. But you may not have to wait that long to get your hands on Google Android 2.3.4, because the source code for the operating system has already been released. All we know about the update right now is that it’s… Read more »