Samsung Galaxy S2: its Jelly Bean source code is published

One of the first steps to make it clear that an update will arrive officially is for its source code to be released publicly, and this is just what happened with the one corresponding to the Jelly Bean version of Android for the terminal. Samsung Galaxy S2.

As indicated on the web SamMobile, the Korean company has released what is necessary to, in addition to making it clear that it is working on the official update, that specific information can be downloaded so that independent developers can begin to carry out their work. Of course, some ROMs with Android 4.1 compatibility are already available for this device, such as CyanogenMOD or AOKP.

If you want to get the files that Samsung has made available to everyone, you can do it on the web Open Source Release Center of this company. In other words, it is neither complicated nor does it require any privilege to access the source code.

Some interesting details

One of the details that have been known is that what is published belongs to the specific model GT-I9100_HK, so it is more than enough to have the necessary information to start with a possible ROM ... since what is published is not a complete firmware for Samsung Galaxy S2 and what can be obtained is, to a large extent, kernel information.

Another good detail is that what is published is enough to be able to work with the new user interface (UI) TouchWiz Samsung specific, which is the one that was already included in the Samsung Galaxy S3 model. This is possible as it is based on the I9100ZSLS6 and I9100ZSLPG firmwares.

In short, this is good news since the publication is already a more than clear symptom that Jelly Bean It will come to Samsung Galaxy S2 ... something that users of this model -which was a reference in the year 2.011 and that includes a two-core SoC and 1 GB of RAM- have been demanding for some time now.