Popularity
In 2010, an UK based developer created an emulator image of the Android Operating System ported to the HTC Blue Angel, it lacked features and there was no integration with the user. It was an image of Android 1.6 Doughnut but the only things which were usable were the volume control buttons. This development sparked interest on xda-developers where many users were willing to help port a usable Android version to the Blue Angel.
Later in 2011, developer 'zainuintel' created an Angry Birds build for the device, showing how capable the 7 year old device was. He later created an Angry Birds RIO build, but this did not get as much popularity, Support was dropped by the developer in 2012. Starting from June 2012 it was made open source, several other members gave links to the game because the original links were taken down by the original hosting site. There are step by step instructions on how to get this on to a Blue Angel can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1237624 .
A well known developer named 'd-two' on XDA started developing Android builds for the Blue Angel, most people thought a working build would be impossible. However in May 2012, d-two released a working Android build- called 'PXADroid' at first not many things worked, only baseline things were working, but later on he decided to switch to modding Cyanogen Mod 7.2, this gave him greater compatibility with the Blue Angel, now nearly everything is sufficiently working, he compiles builds which are not virtual machines, the builds he compiles are special Linux kernels, compiled for the Blue Angel, and above the kernel it runs Android. D-two made great history when he got higher capacity (SD-HC) SD cards working on the Blue Angel, he showed a 16GB card on Android, he tells us this is possible via a boot-loader modification. Development is still going on as the current builds are still in the ALPHA stages. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938512
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