[android-porting] Silent install on first boot

2009-07-30 Thread Al Sutton
This is one of those questions that may or may not be best asked in - platform so if there's a better place to ask please let me know. I was asked a question by an OEM that had me scratching my head. What they want to do is have a single firmware image and on the initial boot silently install a s

[android-porting] Re: Can anyone know how to setup an application to eeepc based on android?

2009-08-23 Thread Al Sutton
Alan, Any chance you could try the AndAppStore installer by downloading it to your PC, adb installing it, then running it on the device? ( The download URL is http://download.funkyandroid.net/AndAppStore-Installer.apk ) This should isolate whether the problem is with downloading via a browser or

[android-porting] Re: Can anyone know how to setup an application to eeepc based on android?

2009-08-24 Thread Al Sutton
;>>> with the details there. > > >>>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Alan Cramer wrote: > > >>>>> Hi Dianne, > >>>>> It was the message on screen.  Where can I go to find the logs?  Is it > >>>>> the same as a Linu

[android-porting] Re: Can anyone know how to setup an application to eeepc based on android?

2009-08-25 Thread Al Sutton
AndAppStore, it comes up with an Out of Space > error. > > "Software Directory could now be viewed. Free up some space on your phone > and try again." > > Attached is the new log.  The Android-x86 has been installed to an ext2 > partition, if that helps. > >

[android-porting] Anyone working on QVGA / WVGA devices?

2009-09-14 Thread Al Sutton
I'm looking for feedback from anyone who has a QVGA or WVGA device in the works on how well the latest release of our client works on those size screens. We've tested it on the open source repo donut emulator and it seems to work well, but I'd still be grateful for feedback on how well the UI s

[android-porting] Pointers for a port to an OMAP device?

2009-10-17 Thread Al Sutton
A few people are getting together to port Android to the "old" non- Android Archos 5 which is based on the a TI OMAP 3 processor, so I was wondering if anyone has any pointers to get a build environment for Android up and running so we can avoid any setup snags. Thanks, Al. P.S. If you're inter

[android-porting] Best practices : Device without Home / Menu / Back

2010-08-06 Thread Al Sutton
Does anyone have a pointer for how to best handle devices without Home, Menu, and back physical keys? I'm ideally looking for something which will be on-screen (e.g. in the status bar). Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is register

Re: [android-porting] Best practices : Device without Home / Menu / Back

2010-08-09 Thread Al Sutton
sily end up stuck without a way to get out.) > > It would help to have some more context about what you are trying to > accomplish. > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Al Sutton wrote: > Does anyone have a pointer for how to best handle devices without Home, Menu, >

[android-porting] Overrides for code as well as resources

2010-08-19 Thread Al Sutton
Does anyone know if there is a equivalent for code? I'm working with some people on a Froyo port to the Archos 5 IT, which, although it ships with Android, doesn't have the home, menu, and back buttons so we've had to implement them in the status bar. In order to do this we've needed some code

Re: [android-porting] Re: Overrides for code as well as resources

2010-08-21 Thread Al Sutton
a copy of an earlier version of the > platform's source seems worse. > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jim Ancona wrote: > On Aug 19, 8:55 am, Al Sutton wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a equivalent for code? > > AFAIK, the only way to do this is to fork

Re: [android-porting] Re: Overrides for code as well as resources

2010-08-21 Thread Al Sutton
Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 21 Aug 2010, at 11:11, Magnus Bäck wrote: > On Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 09:51 CEST, > Al Sutton wrote: > >> We've ended up with a forked repository at the moment. The main >> problem with post c

Re: [android-porting] Re: Overrides for code as well as resources

2010-08-22 Thread Al Sutton
nline and if it gets > accepted, you can then use a normal resource overlay for config.xml > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Al Sutton wrote: > [copied to list] > > I'm a fan of the KISS principal, so if I can reduce the number of > reposit

Re: [android-porting] Touch input problem

2010-11-27 Thread Al Sutton
Have you considered porting Froyo instead? I'm slightly curious as to why anyone would still be porting Donut (or even Eclair), and I've been working on Froyo on the ViewPad 10 so I might be able to help. Al. == Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number

Re: [android-porting] Re: Dual Display with Android

2010-11-30 Thread Al Sutton
Something I'd suggest is a method for one app to address both displays. This could be as a vendor specific library as opposed to modifications to the existing framework, but I can see a number of apps being able to make use of two screens in a nintendo-DS style manner (e.g. city guides with a ma

Re: [android-porting] How to declare device as "hdpi " even when it's not… à la Galaxy Tab

2010-12-14 Thread Al Sutton
I was told the straight dpi to density mappings weren't accurate, so a device with a larger display could get a higher bucked than then SDK documentation indicated it would due to expected viewing distance being taken into account. Al. == Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wale

Re: [android-porting] Android Requirements

2010-12-21 Thread Al Sutton
The recommendations depend largely on what your device is intended for. It might be worth looking at similar devices in order to determine what works well for your use case. Al. == Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed

Re: [android-porting] ubuntu - gingerbread build issue --> version `GLIBC_2.11' not found

2010-12-22 Thread Al Sutton
Please use the android-building group for build questions; http://groups.google.com/group/android-building Al. == Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those

Re: [android-porting] attempting to build gingerbread

2010-12-24 Thread Al Sutton
Build issues should be discussed on http://groups.google.com/group/android-building If you search that groups history you should find some helpful tips. Al. On 24 Dec 2010, at 05:37, Srinidhi K V wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to build ginger bread on a 32bit machine? Any pointers on thi

Re: [android-porting] Browser not working 4.0.1->4.0.3 / Solution

2011-12-27 Thread Al Sutton
Looks like Change-Id If6efd11f5032141dadbfcd0b3215e89b464e5f35 (AOSP commit aefc28a1b666f3e9b19eb5a8955e70297119f03d) is to blame. As part of the removal of some performance checking code the conditional which loaded the page as well as triggering a performance message was removed. The specif

Re: [android-porting] Browser not working 4.0.1->4.0.3 / Solution

2012-01-12 Thread Al Sutton
John, The android-x86 group have tried switching to chromium, but it appears to have a dependancy on the v8 engine which in turn requires the ARM platform (see http://groups.google.com/group/android-x86/msg/f99f379337585667 for details). Do you have a recommendation for what groups porting to n

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-17 Thread Al Sutton
Given the recent announcement by Kogan is it worth putting effort into trying to support QVGA? From the -developers list it sounds like very few apps will have a usable UI in QVGA, so maybe it should be dropped as an option? Al. Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > That all sounds good, thanks. > >

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-17 Thread Al Sutton
or the > various densities, which is on the roadmap. > > Growing pains are a necessary part of growth, though. Otherwise, > pushing the reasoning further, we'd all be running Android 1.0 on the > G1 forever. > > JBQ > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Al Sutton wrote

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-18 Thread Al Sutton
Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Al Sutton <mailto:a...@funkyandroid.com>> wrote: > > Given the recent announcement by Kogan is it worth putting effort into > trying to support QVGA? > > > The work isn't being done for Kogan

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-18 Thread Al Sutton
expect. Maybe someone should update the docs and/or remove the skins from the emulator if they are currently as useless as you say. Al. Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Al Sutton <mailto:a...@funkyandroid.com>> wrote: > > > The work isn't bein