After Myce discovered in the Chromium issue tracker a fish-based codename (Flounder) for a Google device running an early-May Android version, speculating that Flounder may be the Nexus 8/9 tablet tipped to be made by HTC, xda-developers has dug deeper and found more evidence that HTC is the maker of Flounder. Additionally, what could also be a Nexus device codenamed “Molly” has also been spotted.
Digging through the Android 4.4.3 KitKat MR2 changelist, the publication found lines of code that associate Flounder to HTC, as seen below:
project device/htc/flounder/ f6f0fe7 flounder: fix KGDB port d9a03bc flounder: take out conservative cpufreq governor a.o. extraneous stuff 091c1c1 flounder: add Power HAL project device/htc/flounder-kernel/ 6090a06 flounder: update kernel prebuilt
Interestingly, Molly was also spotted in the same KitKat MR2 build, although it’s not clear who will make the device – those lines of code follow below:
project device/google/molly/ 60f0dd6 molly: keystore: add keystore hal 1dcb7b7 molly: correcting too wide permissions for certain devnodes eadd23b molly: set permissions for nvhost-msenc c554447 [molly][drm] Implement rules for Discretix module 787e5e7 Fix the file permission for mbtchar0 fe0c51a Update releasetools.py to support separate prod and test key bootloaders e610c57 Set BT minor code to SET_TOP_BOX instead of HIFI. 5d64459 molly: Do not init p2p for wlan0 interface c0626ba Disable throughput hinting for gpu frequency scaler. project device/google/molly-kernel/ 81386aa Update kernel 11ab4e9 Update kernel 9d7bca3 Update kernel bea8097 Update kernel 55591db Update kernel 342aa11 Update kernel 481e0a6 Update kernel: b904ad3 Update kernel 4d2f31f Update kernel dc305ba Update kernel d508d83 Update kernel 5668370 Update kernel
Google is expected to unveil an HTC-made Nexus 8 or Nexus 9 tablet this summer, possibly alongside a new Android 4.5 OS version, and a Nexus 6 smartphone in fall based on the LG G3.
