Community developed Android ROMs have come a very long way in a short amount of time. Many people now base their hardware purchase on whether or not they will be stuck running the factory ROM on it; alternatives like CyanogenMod and AOKP are simply better than what the manufacturer shipped the hardware with. But for all [...]
Cutting Off The Root: The Future Of Community Developed Android
The CyanogenMod team made news last week when they announced that future versions of their venerable Android build would no longer include root-level access by default, a massive departure from essentially every other custom Android ROM. Some have questioned the move, claiming that removing root undermines the very idea of running a custom ROM. What [...]
CyanogenMod App Store Development Update
Progress on CyanogenMod’s new App Store is being made, with Koushik Dutta (better known as “Koush”) posting an image of the Developer Console to his Google+ page today: Nothing new to learn from this single image, but it does show that the CyanogenMod App Store has moved from being just an idea to a real service. Why a [...]
CyanogenMod Graces HP’s Touchpad with Alpha CM7
They have it! The first public release of CyanogenMod drops for the HP TouchPad. @dalingrin got things going with this video, and then RootzWiki dropped the bomb. For those of you who snatched up one of those $99 fire sale toys, it’s your lucky day! Someone crammed Froyo (Android 2.2) on one and sold it [...]