Ecco la comunicazione ufficiale sui progressi della CyanogenMod 9 disponibile sul sito ufficiale del team:
“We’ve been hard at work on CM9 since Google released Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) into the wild last month, and things are slowly starting to come together. Google did a great job with ICS and added some really awesome features which in some cases replace or deprecate functionality that we had in CM7, so we are reevaluating all of our customizations. A number of devices are already up and running with CM9, and the focus is currently on getting as many devices ready as we can. The first devices (besides the Nexus S, which you can already get from Koush’s section on ROM Manager) that we’ll have ready will mostly likely be devices based on OMAP4, MSM8660/7X30, and Exynos. We also have some Tegra2 tablets in the pipeline such as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Asus Transformer. Our goal is to provide continued support to all CM7 devices back to the QSD8250 series of devices such as the Nexus One. I don’t want to make any promises at this time, but that is the plan. And sorry Droid1 owners, we’re dropping support for you. Time to upgrade
There are a number of challenges that we are up against. Google has made some pretty major changes to the Android framework that break compatibility with older proprietary camera and graphics drivers in order to achieve some pretty insane performance, but I am confident that the team will be able to overcome these issues like we have in the past.
For those of you who like to build CM from source yourself, you probably know that the spin-up time when starting a CM7 build is absurdly long due to the high number of devices in our repository. Koush and Arcee have put together a solution to this problem that adds new devices on-demand to your local repository, saving on both bandwidth and the long startup time. Some other great enhancements are coming too, like a completely overhauled music app, a new file manager, and a new launcher based on stock 4.0.
If you have a Nexus S, you can check out the code and build for yourself today. More devices are on the way, and I’ll send out these status updates as we make more progress.”
Riassumendo brevemente il contenuto, il team comunica che dal giorno del rilascio del codice sorgente del nuovo Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich sono iniziati i lavori di questa nuova CyanogenMod 9, e sembra che le cose stiano andando per il verso giusto. Inoltre, alcuni device hanno la possibilità di sfruttare le nuove potenzialità di CM9 ma ancora deve essere completata per poter essere perfettamente funzionante.
I primi smartphone Android, oltre il Nexus S, nei quali sarà possibile avere in brevi tempi la nuova CM9 sono quelli con chip TI OMAP4, Qualcomm MSM8660/7X30 e Samsung Exynos. Ora il prossimo obbiettivo sarà il porting perfetto per device con chip Nvidia Tegra 2, come Galaxy Tab 10.1 e Eee Pad Transformer.
Il team punta, come sempre, a non abbandonare nessun device, potendo fornire così una versione funzionante per tutti i device che fino ad oggi hanno potuto sfruttare la CM7, compreso il Nexus One.
Le uniche difficoltà che il team sta trovando durante questo duro lavoro sono dovute alle modifiche apportate da Google in questo nuovo OS, come per la fotocamera e l’accelerazione hardware. Ma presto saranno superati anche questi problemi.
Non ci resta che sperare di vedere presto la prima release e ringraziare il Team Cyanogen per tutto questo lavoro.