Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ported to Kindle Fire




This bit of portage tosses a Jelly Bean into the Fire.


(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)

Hundreds of years ago, whoever controlled the ports of the world controlled the empire. In the Android world, ports rule once again -- in particular, a developer named Hashcode's port of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to the Amazon Kindle Fire totally rules.


You can find all the necessary files at xdadevelopers forum, and Lilliputing also has a nice walk-through of the process.


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