Today Google announced that they are opening the flood gates and opening the code up for download today.
If you are interested in helping the community or just want to have fun and see if you can not load the code on phones or gadgets that it was never meant to run on just head over the site.

Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications.

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