Cyanogenmod and MIUI are two roms that heavily dominate the Android custom roms arena. While Cyanogenmod has been open-source project for long, with even MIUI toms based off on cyanogen ports, this time MIUI team has chosen to follow the lead and has gone open source — and it makes lots of sense, after all, your Android OS itself is an Open Source OS, followed by now defunct Symbian and WebOS mobile operating systems.

While it may not mean too much for users at least directly, this does means a great deal for custom rom developers, who will now be able to use MIUI team’s rom codes and files for their own rom. Simply put, it makes stuff easy for custom rom developers and thus, aids is easy custom rom development.

MIUI’s source code will be published on this page, titled as MiCode, which has just gone live and is still in Chinese — http://www.micode.net/portal.php

As regards the open-source github page, it can be found here — https://github.com/MiCode

Surely, it’s pretty ground-breaking news for custom roms developers, who now have the choice of both Cyanogenmod and MIUI to take sources from, and we hope it only means better roms for us flashers, and that too pretty quick.