It was not long ago when Google unveiled the company’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system at the Google I/O conference. Since then, a host of developers have been waiting to try out the new OS. Now Google has released the Android 4.1 source code to let developers play around with the new OS.
Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru, according to a Verge report, announced on Monday that the Android 4.1 source code had been released in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) under the name "android-4.1.1_r1" for everyone to download, study, and even attempt to port a whole host of devices.
"We're releasing Android 4.1 in AOSP today. The name of the tagged release is android-4.1.1_r1," JBQ stated in the Android Building Group. "The name of the development branch is jb-dev. We recommend that you create new clients, even if you're working in the master branch. It'll make your clients smaller and faster to sync."
Queru also mentioned that Google has released "proprietary binaries" for the newly launched Nexus 7 tablet and the recently banned Galaxy Nexus, and that the Nexus S and Xoom devices will soon join the team. But note that this doesn't mean that full ROMs for all these devices are official. Nonetheless, it's a good thing that they will be out soon.
As far as the Android Community is concerned, the ".1" in "android-4.1.1_r1" most likely refers to a few last minute bug fixes or changes. The full Jelly Bean source code can be downloaded, once it's done uploading. Interested developers can download it here.
