Hi, I am a Junior Undergraduate in a University in India, I have been working with Embedded Systems Programming group of my university.
Now, for some of the projects we have started to us Google Android based devices. Some of the things we are looking into are : (a) Interfacing Google Android based devices using USB Controller on phone to Micro-controller based devices. This might involve communicating using the ZigBee platform and writing device driver to support this. (b) Using Accelerometer on Google Android based devices to interface with Micro-controller and creating embedded device using this. We primarily using AVR ATMega32 and other micro-controllers. Now, I have the following doubts: (a) How different is Device Driver development on Google Android ? is it same as Linux owing to it being a version of Linux kernel. (b) Are there any resource available on-line that could augment this ? (c) Are there resources available on-line that specifically caters to integrating Google Android devices with Micro controllers. ARduino boards are somthing that I have found do this using Bluetooth, I am looking into interfacing using ZigBee maybe ? (d) Development package needed to begin Kernel development ? When I look into source.android.com , I find the entire development package to be 2.1 GB download. However, Linux kernel is itself 50Megabytes in size as a compressed tar. Do I need to download all this , to begin development and is there compressed tar for this available ? and , finally(phew!) Can I do this development on x86 based PC or would I need access to ARM based device. Thanks, Ambuj Varshney Junior Undergraduate Bachelors in Technology in Information and Communication Technology India -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-kernel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
