Showing posts with label Installing Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Installing Android. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Why cant you simply download Android source code and install it on your phone?

Ok, To begin with, this is a very basic and good question.

Android as we know is open source. That means its source code is available some where on the internet, Hosted by Google. So it should not be a big deal to download the source code. Compile it using a compiler and install it on your phone.

Well this is very much valid.

You have the power to do this same thing with most of the other Open source software's available out there. So why not with android?

And why is this not so easy ?

Why can't i simply download the Jelly beans 4.2.2 and install it on my phone?

Well for the following reasons :