Following the discovery of the source code Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich team Cyanogen, making unofficial build Google-mobile platforms, announced the start of work on the CyanogenMod 9.

CyanogenMod 9 release, scheduled for January, is built around a codebase Ice Cream Sandwich.

The popularity of informal Android-CyanogenMod distribution among the users identified a number of reasons: it is updated more frequently than the vendors are preparing to release Android-set of its products, the delivery includes an abundance of useful improvements and utilities; device users with a fairly modified factory Android, for example Nook Color, access the complete set of Android-capacity, owners of Android-Tablet enjoy the improvements, even if they do not have an official release devaysov Honeycomb-«flash».

Again CyanogenMod 9 will run Android 4.0 on unsupported devices such as its Google Nexus One.