Friday, 29 May 2009

Porting status and Canonical developers' news

The porting process of latest Google Android sources to ASUS EeePc 701 is almost complete.
Current status:
  • Intel on-board VGA is working ( 640x480 until 2.6.29 Kernel )
  • GPS USB Serial device is correctly binded to OS
  • LAN 100Mbit Network Adapter is working ( both DHCP and static configuration )
  • WiFi Atheros 5k Network Adapter is working ( both DHCP and static configuration )
  • USB Mouse and/or Keyboard works
  • USB Pen Drives can be mounted as SD Cards
  • Audio is not working ( surely an ALSA configuration issue )
Furthermore, our A.API is working. I cannot tell you anything more.

I read in some websites (ArsTechnica) Canonical developers are focusing their attention on run Android applications on Ubuntu.
That can be technically done by writing a Dalvik VM that lies over a Linux distribution.
Or using an emulator, but it exists and it is too slow. No optimization can guarantee a smooth execution of the applications.

1 comment:

uallalla said...

E' una grande opportunità x Ubuntu che allargherà il numero di applicazioni supportate.