Ice Cream Sandwich Will Be a Gargantuan Release

[Synack]

Makes me wonder what internal memory sizes will be like.

 

[ilikemoneygreen]

I have a feeling a lot of Clockwork Mod zips will be made and flashed as opposed to super mega Odin files. That way you can just edit what you want and leave the rest. Well, at least at first. File sharing websites will be rare because file sizes will be so massive to host them on.

Source is big, but once compiled the file size will be small. i assure you our phones wont be taking on a rom thats 6gb big. even gingerbread source 0was like 2gb. ics is clearly a massive jump but hopefully most the crap will be pushed out of the way and only the important will survive. its going to be fun for cyanogen to compile a rom for the droid. im amazed though becuase the features added in ICS dont seem like it would be such a massive file size leap from Gigerbread. I know honeycomb was added to but still. ..

 

[Synack]

Source is big, but once compiled the file size will be small. i assure you our phones wont be taking on a rom thats 6gb big. even gingerbread source 0was like 2gb. ics is clearly a massive jump but hopefully most the crap will be pushed out of the way and only the important will survive. its going to be fun for cyanogen to compile a rom for the droid. im amazed though becuase the features added in ICS dont seem like it would be such a massive file size leap from Gigerbread. I know honeycomb was added to but still. ..

Well ICS is based from Honeycomb and has added features from GB and then has it's own ICS stuff on top of that. I can see why it's huge. Plus I'm sure there's a ton of hidden features that will be released over time that could add some bulk.

 

[Detonation]

Here's the original source for this info with a few more details:
Heads up: preparing development machines for the future release of ICS in AOSP - Android Building | Google Groups


For people wondering about that 5 hour estimate, it was measured from a "2x quad-core 2.4GHz HT,
with 24GB of RAM, no SSD". Damn.