On Friday evening the company formally announced its in-house project to create better software for Yu phones. The company also said that starting today beta builds of Android Marshmallow, which are the result of the Project Highway, are available for four Yu phones.
These phones are Yureka, Yureka Plus, Yunique and Yuphoria. The Yutopia, which was launched a few months ago, is the odd-one out.
"Developers and contributors have been special to us. When we rolled out Project Highway, we wanted to get as many people on board as possible. Pleased to share that developer.yuplaygod.com is live as of NOW and happy to share today we are making available the open-sourced OS for (four Yu phones)," Yu founder Rahul Sharma wrote on the company's official user forum.
As we had written earlier, the Project Highway will give Yu ability to cook up unique software for its phones, especially now that the company's exclusive partnership with Cyanogen Inc is over. While the base of the Project Highway software will be stock Android, Yu will add several features to it. The most significant of these features is going to be the Around Yu.
At the same time, says Yu, the company will try to keep the look and feel of the software close to pure Android. For Yu, the Yunicorn that was supposed to launch on May 20 was likely to be the first phone running Project Highway software. But the launch of the phone was pushed forward. Now, it is slated to come to the market on May 31.
"Under Project Highway we will be curating source codes from multiple drop points, such as Google's AOSP repos, Chipset Vendors Repos, Various ROMs (where the community developers contribute), Internal YU customisation... and creating one manifest which will be able to support all YU based devices," wrote Rahul.
He said that the stable builds of the Marshmallow based Project Highway software will be available for various Yu phone in the next 30 days.
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