Via AOSP custom ROM



Even the Amazon's Kindle Fire can't resist the sweetness of the Google's OS candy

Android, Android all around. Thanks to the release of Jelly Bean's (Android 4.1.1) source code it has now reached Kindle Fire via AOSP custom ROM.

According to Redmondpie:

The Amazon Kindle Fire is not your archetypal Android tablet by any stretch of the imagination, but that hasn’t stopped members of the modding community from treating it as such. With Android Jelly Bean now beginning its official rollout, those looking to install it on their Amazon tablet can now do so thanks to an AOSP-based Jelly Bean (4.1.1) ROM.

This one arrives courtesy of XDA Developers member Hashcode, and although it’s said to run fairly smoothly, its beta state mean it does have its fair share of imperfections. For example, there are issues with the HD codecs, which affect the use of both YouTube and Netflix, but with Texas Instruments soon to be updating the libion code, that problem should be eradicated in the next couple of days. Besides the codec problem, the screen is described as over-rotating, and turning on UMS is proving to be a little more difficult than it perhaps should, but again, that should soon be historical record.
If you are interested, you can find a guide on how to install this in the link below.

NEWS SOURCE #1: Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean AOSP rom for Kindle Fire now available (via) RedMondPie
NEWS SOURCE #2: Forum Thread #1765288 (via) XDA-Developers

Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!