Android

[Martin Vyšný]

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 15:30 +0200, Mike Baroukh wrote:
> > Somebody already had a look into this:
> >
> > http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973
> 
> Ok. I gave up.
> I would need at least 10 years to make the samething.
> 
> > We have two options: either wait for Dalvik to be open-sourced and
> > recompiled on ARM4, or wait for android.jar to be open-sourced and
> > modified to run on top of Cocoa+SWT. Either way, we just have to wait  :) 
> Isn't it possible to make an adapter with may be Jalimo to enable
> Android applications to run on OpenMoko ?
> 

Sure, it's possible. However writing this adapter from scratch needs
quite a lot of effort, time and manpower - it could take several months.
On the other hand, with android.jar sources it's different story - I
guess a quick, dirty and slow wrapper can be written in a week or so.

> 
> Thanks for your replies.
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> Markus Binsteiner a écrit :
> > Somebody already had a look into this:
> >
> > http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973
> >
> > Basically the problem is that android is compiled for 
> > ARMv5 whereas the neos have got an ARMv4 processor.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Markus
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 10:08 +0200, Mike Baroukh wrote: 
> >   
> >> hi all.
> >>
> >> I'm not a system programmer.
> >> I've got system administration skills and Java developpement skills.
> >>
> >> I will certainly say lots of absurdities.
> >> Please correct me ...
> >>
> >> I'd love to make system developpement.
> >> But start point is not easy.
> >>
> >> I was thinking of following the LinuxFromScratch from start to create my
> >> own learning distribution on my Neo.
> >>
> >> But instead I wondered If I could not try to make Android running ?
> >> I saw that like for OpenMoko, there is and android git repository
> >> available (http://git.android.com/).
> >>
> >> As I understood, Android is similar to FSO : One framework and
> >> applications that rely on it.
> >> There is already lots of applications.
> >> And the SDK is really easy to use within Eclipse.
> >> (could'nt it be possible to make a SDK for OpenMoko under Eclipse to
> >> ease application developpement ?)
> >>
> >> If a group already exists that try to make Android running, please, let
> >> me know.
> >> Also, does somebody have informations on Android ?
> >> Maybe it's have already been checked and it's just a dream that is
> >> actually not possible ?
> >>
> >> I don't speak about making a full working android distribution, but if
> >> It could just start It would be great.
> >> then we could make things working step by step.
> >> The framework already exists, we just have to wire it to the hardware.
> >>
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
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