Presuming the POS system you get from ebay has a similar hardware to the simulated platform, it is almost certainly possible.
The problem is it would require a lot of skill and patience. Expect to need a reasonable level of electronics expertise, a good level of computer science expertise, and a very good level of Linux kernel expertise. I have a reasonable (but not good) expertise of all 3, and I would expect it to take ~100 hours work to get an embedded OS working on different hardware without documentation, and that presumes the original and new hardware platforms are very similar. Android has advantages in terms of low hardware requirements for POS systems, but if you want a quick and easy development system, I'd go for a windows/linux kernel, running a fullscreen Macromedia flash application - that gives you easy to do graphics and easy access to a database over the network. Obviously that requires significantly better hardware to run. If you want even quicker development and aren't worried about graphics, use asp.net, since that lets you design network apps with minimal amounts of code and a drag and drop interface. It has the downside it'll be slow unless you have a fast client<->server network connection, and costs money. On Apr 21, 4:16 pm, jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Porting Android to odd hardware is not something I would attempt, with > my skill set, but it occurs to me that Android could be a really nice > SDK for POS (Point Of Sale) systems. For example, imagine a touch > screen terminal for a self-service sales kiosk (a problem I happen to > be working on right now). It just so happens that the Android SDK > (though still immature) offers everything I want for that job - > efficiency, good graphics, communications, easy database access, ... > What are the chances of running Android on a cheap POS system from > ebay? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Internals" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-internals?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
