Developers and device manufacturers alike have just received an ultimatum from Google to get their Jelly Bean builds for their devices and apps ready for prime time: the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code has just been made available.
“Proprietary binaries are available for Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus. Nexus S and Xoom will follow,” Google technical lead Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote in a forum for the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
Jelly Bean is largely intended to offer smoother usage than its predecessor, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). However, it also includes several stand-out features, particularly the Google Now personal assistant.
It still may take some time for things to go live as the code is replicated, but it’s definitely great to see the new code available to the community.