Open-sourcing a mobile app [closed]

Question

I'm considering making an existing mobile app into an open-source project. It has an Android and iPhone version.

While I have used open-source projects and submitted feature requests and bug reports, I have never created an open-source project nor contributed with a patch to an existing one.

What are the top things that I should take into account before opening the source of my project? What specific steps do you recommend taking for open-sourcing a mobile app?

Answer 1

You are lucky as when I started to run open source projects I did not realize this great book exists,

http://producingoss.com/

It provides general tips in almost all aspects of running an open source project, and you can add your own for mobile world.

Answer 2

You can publish you code on googleCode, SourceForge or Github, use all the power of theses websites (documentation, notes etc..) will help contributors.

And don't forget to comment your code ;-)