A few months ago, we wrote about the Sony Xperia S being involved in a project
that entailed supporting it with direct AOSP support. The project was
exciting, as the only other non Nexus device to have ever received such
support was the Motorola Xoom. The good news is that good progress was
made. The bad news is that it ran into some hiccups, which have led to
the Xperia S leaving the AOSP project. So much for a non Nexus stock Sony headset folks.
According to reports,
Android was booting up, Wi-Fi was working, and sensors were all up and
running. The problem was due to proprietary software binaries that could
not be merged in AOSP due to reliance on legitimate open source code,
which in the end kept audio and network functionality from working.
Google and Sony then decided that the project could not go any farther
because of this, and have moved the remains of the project over to
GitHub.
