[android-porting] porting dalvik doesn't needs emulator?

2010-07-06 Thread xliu
Hi list, we are planing to port dalvikvm to a new cpu. we're worry about emulator issue because clearly qemu doesn't support own homebrew cpu. so i took a dirty investigation on the relationship between qemu- emulator-dalvik. could you go through my sum up and give me some comments? The role of

[android-porting] the minimal system server which can display GUI

2011-01-17 Thread xliu
Hi, Magic List, Could you tell me the minimal system server to display a GUI "desktop"? by desktop, i mean the "HOME" activity, wallpaper , and launcher stuffs, which are basic. Here is my story. We are bringing up a prototype of android system basing on cupcake. In current stage, we just want t

[android-porting] where's icu4jni in gingerbread

2011-03-14 Thread xliu
i suspect my helloworld in java doesn't work on gingerbread because dalvik doesn't support UTF-8 charset. i did observe UnsupportedCharsetExpception raised . /*in Charset.java*/ try { return Charset.forName(encoding); } catch (UnsupportedCharsetException e) {