TouchDroid Project Dies, But Work Continues on Touchpad Android Port
by Andrew Cunningham on September 9, 2011 12:00 PM ESTThe TouchDroid project, which was created just weeks ago in the wake of HP's Touchpad liquidation sale, has already disbanded. The project's discontinuation stems not from technical problems but because of accusations of code theft by the CyanogenMod team, which has also been working to bring Android to HP's defunct tablet.
After the TouchDroid team posted a video showing off the Touchpad running a touch-enabled install of Android 2.3, the CyanogenMod team accused TouchDroid team members of stealing code from the CyanogenMod port and passing it off as their own. In the end, the TouchDroid team gave the CyanogenMod team credit for its work, posted a dump of what they had done up to that point and declared that the team was "no longer actively working on a port" of Android to the Touchpad.
Meanwhile, the CyanogenMod team's work continues, and appears to be going well - at this writing, the only major component that doesn't appear to be functioning in their port is wi-fi, and at this rate I'd expect that to be fixed soon. In the meantime, you can read the Android Police report for a full description of the chat transcripts, forum posts, and tweets through which this drama unfolded.
Source: Android Police
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Assimilator87 - Friday, September 9, 2011 - link
Unfortunately, I can't comment on webOS 3 because I've only briefly played with it, but all cards are truly running in the background in webOS 2.1 on my Sprint Pre. The clock updates, downloads in Preware show the transfer rate, videos/Youtube keep playing (although that requires a patch), and even Quake stays running, all in card view.P.S. If you haven't already, go check out Pong Clock. Best exhibition app out there in my opinion.
steven75 - Friday, September 9, 2011 - link
...Just to downgrade the OS.It may have been worthwhile if there were thousands of Honeycomb apps, but even that isn't the case.
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Are you talking about the Apple app store?DanNeely - Friday, September 9, 2011 - link
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