Thomas, I have already heard about the axdroid project, but it seems its original developer (and only developer) will not contribute much anymore. Also, he has been trying to release the sources, but ti doesnt seem he has been able to figure out how yet.
With respect to my knowledge, Ive been a linux user for the last four years, have a middle knowledge on C, C++, C# and Java, but on the embedded world, i pretty much lack any experience...So im very sure that I would need to learn a lot in order to acomplish anything decent... Jerome, I realize the sources should be eventually released, but im kind of eager to begin doing something. Even though I still dont have the sources of that project, which certainly is a good start point, Id still like to see what I can do for myself. With respect to the axdroid image, I already tried it, and all I get, is a section of the boot messages. It doesnt finish booting, and im not sure in what point it fails... On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Jerome Duval <[email protected]>wrote: > The Axim project isn't dead yet, the person working on the port just > hasn't released the sources yet. He probably won't be contributing much, but > at least there's a good basis to start off on. The image posted on the blog > along with the instructions work perfectly on my x51v. Your mileage may vary > on the x51, since it's my understanding there is no mirror mode (and Haret + > Android might not be able to display). > > > Thomas Roth wrote: > > Hi! > First, I've found something that could be interesting for you: > http://axdroid.blogspot.com/ > > Second: Well I don't know how much knowledge you do have with linux and > embedded things at all, but I think it will be very difficult to do it if > you have no knowledge at all. > If we don't know what your skills are we can't really help you. > > Regards, > > Thomas > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Pablo Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi! >> >> I've been studying options to replace Windows Mobile 5 in dell axim >> handhelds and palm OS Garnet on palm devices. After some thinking, >> I've become very enthusiast with the idea of building android in such >> a way to support these devices. >> >> However, I'm pretty lost on where I could begin this (probably big and >> time-consuming) task. Ive already acquired the android source using >> the instructions from the "get source" page, and compiled them, but >> thats as far as I've got. >> >> There was a project called axdroid (http://axdroid.blogspot.com/) that >> has seemed to suffer a soon death due to the fact that the only >> contributor to the project bought himself an HTC Magic, and he hasn't >> released his code anywhere. I'm really, very interested in making this >> thing work, and I'm willing to invest a lot of time on supporting >> these devices. The only problem, is that I dont know how to start... >> >> At my disposition, I have a palm lifedrive and a dell axim x51, and my >> first goal, would be to manage to make android load properly up to its >> user interface in both devices, without replacing the current OS (I >> believe there is a tool called cocoboot for palm, and a similar called >> Haret for windows mobile, that allow to load a linux kernel into the >> device). Once there, I would then patiently solve any compatibility >> issue (up to where my skill would allow it) and after everything, if I >> get to a satisfactory result, Id study how to get Android to load >> directly from these devices without depending neither on windows >> mobile or Garnet. >> >> Can anyone here advice me on how I could get this thing going on??? >> >> >> > > > -- > I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it > when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy > them. > If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny > existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt > > > > > > > -- Pablo Marchant Campos Estudiante Licenciatura en AstronomÃa PUC Miembro area TI SinergiaUC --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
