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Building Android – Available Now!

Android is OpenSourced, and you can build it yourself on MacOSX or an Ubuntu machine. THis is not the emulator, but real Android OS running on your system.

http://source.android.com/download

Has the directions.

Check out the known-issues page before giving up- there are some rough edges.

10/22 Update: watch out for your file system on the mac, you need to have one that is paritioned and formatted with case sensitivity, I just found out:

~/work/mydroid [558]$ make
build/core/product_config.mk:229: WARNING: adding test OTA key
build/core/main.mk:58: ************************************************************
build/core/main.mk:59: You are building on a case-insensitive filesystem.
build/core/main.mk:60: Please move your source tree to a case-sensitive filesystem.
build/core/main.mk:61: ************************************************************
build/core/main.mk:62: *** Case-insensitive filesystems not supported.  Stop.