Porting challenges

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Originally Posted by sjs01

We can't have an actual android on our device I don't think, all we can have is linux running what looks like android (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

Just to clarify a little, Android is essentially (if not actually) a linux distro. Most of the releases for the TP2 have been based on XDAndroid which is a particular variant of the Android project which is itself based off the linux core.

There are actually some people who have built on the official google Android tree, but I think XDAndroid offers some additional helpful features for developing and really there isn't a whole lot of reason that I know of to use vanilla Android over XDAndroid. As an interesting piece of trivia, the CDMA branch has actually changed during the course of the project too when it jumped back in to the GSM branch. Unless you are a big linux/open source buff though, I wouldn't get too worked up over which branch is which, generally whatever is linked in the main thread should be the most featureful and probably the best for general use. But this is "real" Android.