AOSP update: Full device encryption thanks to community developers
As of today, full device encryption is possible to build from open source code for the devices supported in our AOSP for Xperia project. Together with last week’s addition of functionalities like Wi-Fi, NFC, GPS and audio, this is thanks to the efforts from open source community developers, who spends hours and hours of their free time developing and adding their commits to the SonyXperiaDev GitHub projects.
The full device encryption feature, included in today’s update of the AOSP Lollipop binaries, encrypts all your data, including application data, downloaded files and everything else stored on your phone or tablet. When you power on your device you’ll be prompted to enter the encryption PIN or password. All your data is fully protected and only possible to access using the PIN or password.
As with last week’s update of the AOSP Lollipop binaries, which included functionalities such as Wi-Fi, NFC, GPS and audio, the full device encryption is now built from AOSP open source code thanks to hero open source developers from the FreeXperia Team and the XDA developers community (check out their names below). Thank you guys!
Join the open source heroes today
If you are new to open source development you can learn how to build your own version of Android, and flash it on your unlocked Xperia device, in our step-by-step guide How to build AOSP Lollipop for unlocked Xperia devices.
The overall goal in our open device projects is to replace as many pre-built binaries as possible with AOSP source code. In this on-going work we have received important contributions from you open source community developers, as mentioned above. And looking forward we hope that you will contribute to, for instance, the new unified 3.10 kernel. Check out the SonyXperiaDev GitHub to fork the code and commit your improvements.
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We would like to express our big thanks to the most frequent contributors to the latest AOSP open source code updates: Adam Farden, Andreas Makris, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno, Chirayu Desai, Giulio Cervera, Lalit Maganti, and Shane Francis from the FreeXperia Team, and the XDA developers Christian Oder, Cool Development, Erik Castricum, galaxyfreak, and Milosz Derezynski. Thanks!