[android-porting] Re: How to identify if code is running on emulator or on real device

2012-07-25 Thread freakingtux
The framework code does the following: SystemProperties.get(ro.kernel.qemu)) ? 1 : 0 On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:29:55 PM UTC+2, Shafali Gupta wrote: Hi, I just need to identify whether code is running on device or on emulator. please suggest something which works for AOSP 4.0. Thanks

[android-porting] Re: [Q] adding a new device under device/vendor/product

2012-04-12 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:29:54 PM UTC+2, lyakh wrote: Hi all I've spent a couple of hours searching the http://source.android.com/ site, the relevant google groups and the internet at large for an answer to a simple question: how do I add my new device under

[android-porting] Re: error while building validatekeymaps

2012-03-30 Thread freakingtux
Hello On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:35:57 AM UTC+2, venkat k raju wrote: Hi all, i am using build command below one $ make TARGET_PRODUCT=beagleboard TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=tests -j8 droid Please read http://source.android.com/tech/input/validate-keymaps.html it shows how to use the tool.

[android-porting] Re: building a basic android for any arm11 processor

2012-03-05 Thread freakingtux
Hello On Monday, March 5, 2012 2:32:14 PM UTC+1, akash malhotra wrote: mini6410 board , i get this error on the serial port , # warning: `rild' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) request_suspend_state: wakeup (3-0) at 53093245160 (2011-04-12 10:37:15.802849407 UTC)

[android-porting] Re: Booting hangs after devtmpfs: mounted

2012-02-16 Thread freakingtux
Hello On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 6:54:59 PM UTC+1, jagan wrote: Hi All, I have trying to port android onto my ARM target. Before proceeding with android, I tried for Linux kernel+root file- system. It was pretty working with above combination. [console is up] As my observation

[android-porting] Re: Android source browsing from eclipse

2012-02-16 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:55:28 PM UTC+1, Amit wrote: Hi, I have downloaded android gingerbread source code and compiled. But for browsing the source code I want to add the total android project in the eclipse, so that its easy to trace the code. You might want to follow

[android-porting] Re: How to Automate USB Modem Detection

2012-02-15 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:21:24 PM UTC+1, Vikas KM wrote: HI All, I am trying to get the USB modem working for Android (Gingerbread Version) Using *usb-modeswitch* and the conf file i am able to run get the USB modem working thing is I need to run the *usb-modeswitch*

Re: [android-porting] Re: questions about android architecture and difficulties with new versions and porting to new devices

2012-02-08 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 1:05:58 AM UTC+1, Artemy Makarov wrote: Hi Well, you're pretty much covered most of my questions. Now i have another two: 1) Are there any possibility, that Android will be easier to build for particular new device? As long as you do not modify

[android-porting] Re: questions about android architecture and difficulties with new versions and porting to new devices

2012-02-07 Thread freakingtux
Hi, While not a phone device vendor I will state a few problem we had. On Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:19:56 PM UTC+1, Artemy Makarov wrote: 1) Why is it so hard to port new versions of android to existing devices? Why does it takes so long for vendors to release new versions of software for

[android-porting] Re: SDK add-on/platform not always working!

2011-12-16 Thread freakingtux
Hello Philip, We also made similar modifications to the platform and at first tried to rebuild the platform-sdk as a means of distributing changes e.g we made changes to the public API's and sometime unhidden methods. This is a dead-end road because it does not leave room for upgrading your

[android-porting] Re: SDK add-on/platform not always working!

2011-12-16 Thread freakingtux
On Friday, December 16, 2011 6:36:35 PM UTC+1, Phillip wrote: Hi freakingtux ! Thanks for your answer! Well but my problem is that I have added some code to existing platform classes (e.g. simple static variables) and I want the IDE (e.g. Eclipse) to have this updated class available

[android-porting] Re: Serial Port

2011-12-05 Thread freakingtux
Hi This is probably not a good group to post this question. On Friday, December 2, 2011 12:51:58 AM UTC+1, martin...@abv.bg wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to read data from a serial port. I have no problem with sending bytes. Everything works fine. There is a problem when i receive bytes.

[android-porting] Re: Develop in eclipse or intellij

2011-12-05 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Monday, November 28, 2011 7:23:48 PM UTC+1, Ronnyek wrote: I dont know if this is the the correct place to ask, but I figure people on this list must be trying it... I tried following this: http://source.android.com/source/using-eclipse.html After doing the first build onces all the

[android-porting] Re: gingerbread development workflow

2011-11-13 Thread freakingtux
Hi, upon closer inspection the problem is related to the emulator used. The emulator ( external/qemu) found on the gingerbread branch does not pick-up the hardware-qemu.ini and thus starts the wrong kernel (kermel-qemu) on the wrong CPU architecture. Pretty soon (in the ramdisk) illegal

[android-porting] gingerbread development workflow

2011-11-11 Thread freakingtux
Hi I started working on gingerbread after having worked on Froyo for a while. The workflow to do platform development I figured out no longer works https://github.com/keesj/gomo/wiki/AndroidPlatformDevelopmentWorkflow Can somebody help me update the documentation? Basically in gingerbread I

[android-porting] Re: Native code execution on android and the hardware

2011-10-05 Thread freakingtux
Hi, Hi, On Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:14:04 AM UTC+2, G.SU wrote: Hi, I am completely new to android development. I am planning to run native code on android processor core. I am looking out for a cheap android hardware device . Can any one here help me out in this regard ?

[android-porting] Re: Auto Mounting of SD Card when connected through card reader

2011-10-05 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Friday, September 30, 2011 2:44:53 PM UTC+2, Vishwanath Hegde wrote: Hi, I am seeing the mounting and auto mounting of SD Card is not happening when the SD card is inserted through a card reader on android tablet. Can someone explain me in this particular scenario, how the auto

[android-porting] Re: Android gadget mass storage configuration

2011-10-04 Thread freakingtux
Hello Matthias, On Friday, September 30, 2011 9:46:42 AM UTC+2, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: Hi, By default the Android mass storage driver (v2.6.32) only creates one lun. The g_file_storage gadget allows to specify the number of luns with the parameter 'luns', but it isn't clear to me how to

[android-porting] Re: Android build commands

2011-09-28 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:55:19 PM UTC+2, Pratik Prajapati wrote: While building any module in android, its build infrastructure does not show what make commands it is firing. try building using the additional showcommands parameter There is a group called android-building

Re: [android-porting] application to call /system/bin/ts_calibrate

2011-09-28 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 5:27:51 AM UTC+2, arif wrote: 1) un-rooted devices applications do not have permissions to run /system/bin binaries, so you need to root you device and change the access permission for /system/bin. 2) The proper-way is, create shared library of your

Re: [android-porting] How to connect to a binder c++ service?

2011-09-23 Thread freakingtux
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:56:41 PM UTC+2, Nitin wrote: On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Dianne Hackborn hac...@android.com wrote: The Java runtime has wrappers around C++ IBinder. This is what Java's Binder is. You can write a JNI function that returns a Java Binder and in its

Re: [android-porting] how to overlay android source code

2011-09-07 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:15:29 PM UTC+2, Robert Greenwalt wrote: I believe so. I've heard of people making it work hacking up the build system, but I don't think it's officially supported - that sort of code fragmentation would be a nightmare to support. A better approach

[android-porting] Re: invoking pppd from RIL and from command prompt led to different results

2011-09-01 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:49:24 PM UTC+2, paldan wrote: Following your advice I've changed my init.rc script and now I'm launching the RIL with the following lines: service ril-daemon /system/bin/rild socket rild stream 660 root radio socket rild-debug stream 660 radio

[android-porting] Re: APK signing and certificate for production device

2011-09-01 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:46:36 AM UTC+2, Pratik Prajapati wrote: Hi, For production of the device, android APKs needs to be signed. I have created keystore as explained in http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html and signed my APKs with that

Re: [android-porting] Property name too long

2011-07-19 Thread freakingtux
On Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:48:52 AM UTC+1, Brian Swetland wrote: The property name is invalid and will have to be shortened. Right now there's a fair bit of abuse of system properties -- this in particular is a questionable use of properties in that it smells like it should really

[android-porting] Re: uevent handling in user-spcae

2011-07-18 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Monday, July 18, 2011 1:02:18 PM UTC+2, Hvr wrote: Hi, I want to handle uevent in user-space mainly for battery status changed in my application. Can this be done using C program? vold and some other platform programs do read uevents so yes it is possible but you need boot root

[android-porting] Re: undefined reference error! module in frameworks uses external/jpeg..

2011-07-13 Thread freakingtux
Hi, try building with the showcommand meta command so see what gets executed. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting

[android-porting] Re: Porting pulse audio to Android

2011-07-11 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Friday, July 8, 2011 10:20:56 AM UTC+2, Vikram.exe wrote: Hi, I have been using pulse audio on Ubuntu to remote my sound to a network Windows-7 machine. Now I am trying to port pulse audio to Android. Looking at the dependencies, I think, I will have to port a lot of libraries

[android-porting] Re: device configuration information

2011-07-07 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Thursday, July 7, 2011 12:27:31 PM UTC+2, ceat...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi, can someone tell me which file android is using to compare with the qualifiers in the alternative resource directory? The reason why i want to know it, is because im trying to get smaller icons for the apps. So

[android-porting] Re: Procedure for adding new Android user/group ID's?

2011-07-06 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Wednesday, June 3, 2009 9:20:21 PM UTC+2, JoelV wrote: In porting Android to a new device, I've run into some use cases where we've added support for some native OEM hal-specific services and hardware resources which do not seem to fall within the scope of the existing ID's defined

[android-porting] Re: Cannot read or write to SDCARD from new system service

2011-07-06 Thread freakingtux
Also see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5524 -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting

[android-porting] Re: Cannot read or write to SDCARD from new system service

2011-07-05 Thread freakingtux
Hi Jean-Pierre , There are a few things I don't understand about your post: If you are really downloading file and putting them on the sdcard why do you need to create a system service for that? If you are running as root or system user (as the system_server is) no calling permissions at binder

[android-porting] Re: Get Build info from native C init service

2011-06-29 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:42:20 AM UTC+2, Gopi wrote: Hi freakingtux, I want to know how this android.os.Build.Version.SDK works. I mean how the package gets the info from the system. so that i can directly use that way in my C file Perhaps you are after

[android-porting] Re: Get Build info from native C init service

2011-06-28 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:47:37 PM UTC+2, Gopi wrote: Hi all, I want to log the build info of the android OS from the init service native C file. Is there any direct way to get the build info from the shell like using the package android.os.Build. My c file looks like

[android-porting] Why are local sockets used between rild and RIL.java

2011-06-21 Thread freakingtux
Hi Why are sockets used between rild and RIL.java and why not binder? Thanks, -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting

[android-porting] Re: init.rc service group/user

2011-06-21 Thread freakingtux
On Friday, June 3, 2011 10:00:44 AM UTC+2, steeldusk wrote: Hi, I am trying to set user and group in init.rc for my own service. It works nicely with having user as root, but I see some other default android services have 'system' as group. Hi I written down what I understand from

[android-porting] Re: android how to get network speed

2011-06-16 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:57:39 AM UTC+2, yanamala siddaiah wrote: how to get network speed using android app. perhaps get information about the connection using the http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/ConnectivityManager.html for example the

[android-porting] Re: invoking pppd from RIL and from command prompt led to different results

2011-05-31 Thread freakingtux
Hello On Friday, May 27, 2011 4:54:00 PM UTC+2, paldan wrote: Same problem here. Using adb logcat for main, I read the following log: E/pppd( 1017): This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because E/pppd( 1017): the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or

[android-porting] Re: stepper motor control through android phone

2011-05-28 Thread freakingtux
Hi http://hackaday.com/ is a nice site to get ideas. Many of the suggestions Chris did can be found there. Using serial over the audio connector http://hackaday.com/2010/11/10/android-talks-pulsewave/ Using ADB as suggested

[android-porting] Re: log system or device info to sdcard from an android native init service

2011-05-26 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:42:37 PM UTC+2, Gopi wrote: Hi, I m trying to write log to sdcard. I have created a native service that starts during boot and i want it to write a log file to sdcard..my c file looks like this logservice.c #define LOG_TAG Log Service #include

Re: [android-porting] Emulator:how are add-on platform images merged ?

2011-05-16 Thread freakingtux
Hello On Monday, May 16, 2011 5:48:28 PM UTC+2, Digit wrote: They are not merge, they are simply searched in numerical order (so sysdir.1 first, then sysdir.2, etc...) A platform add-on typically provides a full system.img if it provides new system libraries / frameworks. There is no way

[android-porting] Re: Debug application framework with Eclipse

2011-05-09 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Saturday, May 7, 2011 4:10:55 PM UTC+2, Jeje wrote: Hi, I would like to know the tools which enables to debug the application framework layer on a target. Indeed, I would like to be able to follow each step when an application is launched for instance (not using the logCat

[android-porting] Re: kernel built error

2011-05-09 Thread freakingtux
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 1:46:56 PM UTC+2, krishna chaitanya wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the latest kernel code using git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/kernel/common.git. After that I have run the following commands make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- oldconfig // to set

[android-porting] Re: kernel built error

2011-05-09 Thread freakingtux
Hello, On Monday, May 9, 2011 12:46:54 PM UTC+2, krishna chaitanya wrote: Hi freakingtux, Can you please explain what is toolchain and how to complie it?I am new to this. You need to get yourself a proper toolchain and you do not necessarily want to compile it yourself. if you follow

[android-porting] Re: Where is Platform Developer Guide (http://pdk.android.com) ?

2011-05-05 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:20:35 PM UTC+2, AitorTheRed wrote: Hi to everyone. I'm starting to learn about android AOSP and porting/building, so sorry if this is not the right place to ask my question. I have been looking on internet for tutorials about building and porting AOSP to

[android-porting] Emulator:how are add-on platform images merged ?

2011-05-04 Thread freakingtux
Hello I am trying to understand what can be put in a platform add-ons and therefore need to understand how some parts of the emulator work. When a new avd is created for an add-on a config.ini file is put in the avd's directory. This ini files contains multiple entries to a sysdir

[android-porting] Re: Adding a new local git project

2011-04-29 Thread freakingtux
Hello On Monday, April 25, 2011 1:53:54 PM UTC+2, Srinidhi wrote: Hi All, I have a local git repository which I would like to add in $ANDROID/external/ folder as a project. So that it get synced from a local repository when repo sync project name command is used. I tried adding this in

[android-porting] Re: compilation error with froyo 2.2 with rowboat repo

2011-04-21 Thread freakingtux
Hi I am having the same problem here: During the jar phase of the core-tests every resource gets added to the root of the jar (you can see this if you run make showcommands core-tests) jar cf .. -C dalvik/libcore/luni/src/test/resources hyts_Foo.c -C

[android-porting] Re: JVM

2011-04-07 Thread freakingtux
Hi Somebody else was kind enough to send me an email about dexopts. Basically in some situation it is possible to already replace the byte code into optimized dex inside the apk. Documentation can be found in the dalvik documentation folter dalvik/docs/dexopt.html) but also (the same) here

[android-porting] Re: android ndk error

2011-03-19 Thread freakingtux
Hello, I am not familiar with the HID part On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:50:41 AM UTC+1, WuZhenda wrote: I'm trying to port usbhid about to android platform. It's OK when I use c test bin file. but when I'm try to use ndk-build for java,these error displays. 03-16 14:37:33.220:

[android-porting] Re: SDK on android

2011-03-16 Thread freakingtux
Hello Akash, Building Android itself on Android will be quite a hard task as you first will need to port/recompile a lot of tools from GNU/Linux to Android/Linux. Porting the SDK will also be an interesting task specially if you think of running eclipse on the PC. Basically you will probably

[android-porting] Re: Condition compile for the Android JAVA code

2011-03-10 Thread freakingtux
Hi On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 9:08:20 AM UTC+1, Matt wrote: Hi guys: As a fresh man to the JAVA and Android. I wonder is there a official way to pass the BoardConfig.mk value to the JAVA source code? I could do this for the C/C++ source code which only need add some checking code in

[android-porting] Re: Condition compile for the Android JAVA code

2011-03-10 Thread freakingtux
frameworks/base/Android.mk for example: # Include a different set of source files when building a debug build. # TODO: Maybe build these into a separate .jar and put it on the classpath # in front of framework.jar. # NOTE: Do not use this as an example; this is a very special situation. #

[android-porting] RPC for native usage

2011-02-25 Thread freakingtux
Hi, I have different situations where I want an Android (2.2.) native service to communicate with an other service (sometime native and sometimes not). If I start using binder as rpc I need to write Java[tm] code as there is no official support for binder in c/c++ code. What is the

[android-porting] Re: multi platformed android native apps

2011-02-14 Thread freakingtux
Hello Howard, On Monday, February 14, 2011 5:33:16 PM UTC+1, Howard M. Harte wrote: There is already support in the platform for this, I think from 1.6 and later. You make shared libraries using the appropriate NDK for each ABI you support, and during install, the appropriate shared

[android-porting] Re: Failed to get froyo

2011-01-31 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Monday, January 31, 2011 2:43:58 PM UTC+1, koby.fr wrote: I think I got it. See the list of heads in http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/libcore.git;a=heads I've selected -b froyo-plus-aosp, and repo init + repo sync seem to be working. But how to you know if this the

Re: [android-porting] Re: Run application during boot up(.apk file)

2011-01-29 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:39:41 AM UTC+1, hackbod wrote: The am command requires that the entire system be running, since it makes calls on the activity manager. You are mixing two completely different levels of the system. init is the very lowest-level user space code that

[android-porting] Re: How load custom kernel

2011-01-28 Thread freakingtux
Hi The procedure you are following indeed goes into detail about replacing the kernel (so not about replacing the file systems containing applications). You can get new packages on the target in a few ways -adb install -using pm install (over serial) -By putting a new system image on your

[android-porting] Re: How to add Pre-loaded Application?

2011-01-28 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Thursday, January 27, 2011 9:45:47 PM UTC+1, Hank wrote: I have been trying to make my application a pre-loaded application on the Android OS Kernel. Within these two makefiles: generic.mk and core.mk, I added my application to the list of pre-loaded applications found under

[android-porting] SDK-addon development

2011-01-27 Thread freakingtux
Hello, I am working on implementing an SDK-addon and wonder how to setup my components and source codes. I have seen the sample-addon but somehow it does not feel like this offers enough of a sample to explain all I would like because my SDK- addon also contains a service. My setup looks pretty

[android-porting] Re: port skia to non-arm ?

2011-01-27 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:38:06 PM UTC+1, xliu wrote: Hi, List, I wonder whether Skia has any architecture-dependent code. I draw picture on Canvas. but the result is twisted. is that possible there's code-generator stuff inside of skia which emits arm code? we are using a

[android-porting] Re: Which version ol Linux Kernel for Android 2.3?

2011-01-22 Thread freakingtux
Hello, The supported kernel is the 2.6.35 kernel as you can see here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html Greetings -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting

[android-porting] SDK v.s. SDK-addon v.s. hardware build.

2011-01-19 Thread freakingtux
Hello, I am trying to understand how to deploy and use the different Android platform make targets. I am working with the following cases: Case-1) I will need to make small modifications to the standard Android APIs or code Case-2) I will want to add new APIs next to the existing Android APIs

[android-porting] Re: Listen to UEvents

2011-01-19 Thread freakingtux
On Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:40:55 PM UTC+1, freakingtux wrote: system_server who runs as user system how can is bind to a port 1024 ? did I miss something? How can I get notifications of events (like usb plugging) into my application? I plan to talk to the plugged usb device using

[android-porting] Listen to UEvents

2011-01-04 Thread freakingtux
Hi, I am trying to create a Java service that listens to kernel netlink uevent in order for it to detect when a Usb device is plugged-in/out.(is there a more simple way to do this in 2.2. ?) Basically I want a kernel uevent - broadcast intent service I found a few classes in the Android

[android-porting] Re: GingerBread Touch Issue

2011-01-04 Thread freakingtux
Hi, On Jan 4, 5:23 pm, Retti retti...@googlemail.com wrote:     W/InputManager-Callbacks(  541): Error reading input device calibration properties for device ADS7846 Touchscreen from /system/usr/ idc/ADS7846 Touchscreen.idc.     W/InputManager-Callbacks(  541): java.io.FileNotFoundException: