In the end I went with a buttons-in-the bar approach, and, with a few pointers from Dianne, have a working system - http://www.openaos.org/archives/498
If anyone wants to join in the effort there's a bounty on getting WiFi working, or there are a few other areas which need work. Most of the discussion goes on #openpma on irc.freenode.net Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== 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 of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 9 Aug 2010, at 13:14, Rogério de Souza Moraes wrote: > Hi, > > take a look at the code of android-x86 that implaments a way to use MENU, > BACK and HOME buttons in a device with just touchscreen. The name of the file > that implements this is Touchable.java. > > http://www.android-x86.org/documents/touch-only-device-howto > > The inconvenient is that you need to do this modification in the Android > plataform, but as you will use Android to a specific device, if think it is > not a big deal. > > Regards, > > Rogerio > > 2010/8/8 Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> > That is very much not a compatible device. My pointer would be to tell the > manufacturer to fix their device. :p > > If you are building hardware that doesn't have these keys, you will need to > have a software representation of the keys somewhere on screen that is always > available. You could for example make the status bar taller and put them > there... and change it so it can't be hidden by apps. (Because if they can > hide it, the user can easily 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 registered in England & Wales with the company > number 6741909. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily > those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
