{"id":654188,"date":"2013-04-23T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=804020"},"modified":"2013-04-23T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:51:59","slug":"sony-launches-an-android-open-source-project-for-the-xperia-z-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654188","title":{"rendered":"Sony Launches An Android Open Source Project For The Xperia Z Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/xperia-z-gallery-03-1240x840-7ecd093f3b661a91374d8ea94bfa2806.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-tc-carousel-river-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"xperia-z-gallery-03-1240x840-7ecd093f3b661a91374d8ea94bfa2806\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 7px 0;\" \/><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/74_1nB_Z1Hw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sony has decided to release a\u00a0sequel\u00a0to the <a  href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?fromgroups=#!topic\/android-building\/zji_sQGN9Oo\">Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for Xperia S it began in August of 2012<\/a>, and <a  href=\"http:\/\/developer.sonymobile.com\/2012\/11\/08\/sony-takes-lead-on-aosp-on-xperia-s-project-video\/\">took over from Google in November of last year<\/a>. This time, the <a  href=\"http:\/\/developer.sonymobile.com\/2013\/04\/23\/aosp-now-available-for-xperia-z-on-sonys-github-open-source-video\/\">Xperia Z is getting its own project<\/a>, which means that the company&#8217;s water resistant flagship phone will get to participate in the kind of Android\u00a0development\u00a0work more often reserved\u00a0for Google-blessed Nexus devices.<\/p>\n<p>Sony&#8217;s Xperia S AOSP experiment was well-received, though it was eventually moved away from the AOSP main branch to <a  href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sonyxperiadev\/device-sony-lt26\">Sony&#8217;s own GitHub<\/a>, owing to the limitations of what could be done with the hardware. Sony software engineers Johan Redestig and Bj\u00f6rn Andersson want to help continue that work with Sony&#8217;s latest. The Xperia Z project will help developers and tinkerers interested in making contributions to Android, and to Qualcomm&#8217;s Snapdragon S4 Pro platform do so using essentially a vanilla Android OS installation on the device, albeit starting out on Sony&#8217;s own GitHub, and not as part of Google&#8217;s own main\u00a0AOSP project.<\/p>\n<p>Before you go thinking that this is a way to turn your every day Xperia Z into a stock Android Nexus device, however, note that use of the AOSP comes with a few big caveats: It can read the SD card, use Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, the LED notification light and sensors, but the modem and camera are dependent upon proprietary binaries that Sony can&#8217;t release to the public. And still other binaries have been released by Qualcomm and Xperia Z, and are provided by Sony&#8217;s developer partners, but can&#8217;t technically be part of the AOSP efforts because they aren&#8217;t open source code. Sony plans to try to replace at least some of those binaries with source code as the project progresses, however.<\/p>\n<p>While this isn&#8217;t quite as exciting as when Google added the Xperia S as a hardware target to its own AOSP main branch, it&#8217;s still good news for developers and the development community, and should help broadly with contributions to Android and its evolution as well.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com\/804020\/\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=VrP3NPz6Zx8:NOPYEcElABs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=VrP3NPz6Zx8:NOPYEcElABs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=VrP3NPz6Zx8:NOPYEcElABs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=VrP3NPz6Zx8:NOPYEcElABs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=VrP3NPz6Zx8:NOPYEcElABs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has decided to release a\u00a0sequel\u00a0to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for Xperia S it began in August of 2012, and took over from Google in November of last year. This time, the Xperia Z is getting its own project, which means that the company&#8217;s water resistant flagship phone will get to participate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}