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Re:Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone by norswap on Friday December 20, 2013 @06:06PM (#6944728)
What's the point of the Google CTS Certification?
Re:Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone by kllrnohj on Saturday December 21, 2013 @04:23AM (#6946259)
The CTS tests is the suite that ensures that all versions of Android at the same API level behave the same as far as a developer is concerned. It verifies that the public APIs do what they are documented to do.
Re:Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone by bluekitten on Friday December 20, 2013 @06:11PM (#6944756)
These three articles should give you a lot of background.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/14/3335204/google-statement-a...

http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...

(page 3)

I am still curious if Jolla can be shipped by any of the Android OEMs in the Open Handset Alliance since it used a third party Dalvik VM, anyone know?