Glad to hear that you are so excited!
If you upgrade to the latest on the master branch, the hardware keyboard
should work, and the software keyboard should be disabled. The APC
Rock/Paper fit into the Phone category because they run Firefox OS. The
other categories are for Firefox on Desktop, Firefox on Android, and
Firefox on Android Tablets respectively.
Unfortunately, a lot of apps will look horrible on the APC because they
were designed with phone, or at most tablet screen sizes in mind. We
need to find a way to fix this...
- Josh
On 1/21/14, 2:29 PM, Bob Thulfram wrote:
Yes, please share your findings. I'm very excited about the Rock and
feel it could be the foundation for a new market for computers for
people who can't afford a regular PC or even a OLPC. I'm a big VIA fan
and I want them to succeed. And Firefox OS moves onto yet another
platform.
I just submitted my first app and see that there are four platforms to
submit to at present. I wonder where the Rock/Paper fit. Phone,
Desktop, Android, Tablet?
Also, I forgot to mention something interesting. Does the keyboard in
the Rock work? I seem only to be able to use the mouse and the
software keyboard that pops up on an input box.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Panos Astithas <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I got an APC Paper myself a few days ago that I've already
upgraded to the latest APC master. One of my goals is to make sure
our developer tools work with these devices, so I'll post my
findings once I've had a chance to play with it some more.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Joshua Smith
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello Bob,
I am using/helping to develop the APC + Firefox OS system. I
don't think that there is a forum for users, but I will
suggest that to one of the people in the actual company.
To install a customized build of Firefox OS, you would stick
the image on a micro-sd card, and insert that into the APC
while running. You can then restart the system and it should
install. Note that you may want to stick with the
https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/ code as that is
optimized for the system.
The mac address issue is known, and is in the release roadmap.
Cheers, and thank you for the post!
- Josh
On 1/20/14, 2:01 PM, Bob Thulfram wrote:
Is anyone else working with the APC Rock?
http://apc.io/products/rock/ This is a small single-board
computer with a
VIA Arm chip and all the usual I/O. But it runs Firefox OS
natively.
I've written a post about it:
http://firefoxosgaming.blogspot.com/2014/01/apc-rock-hardware-review.html.
I can:
1. Download apps from the store.
2. That's about it.
I can't:
1. Install my own apps. The Simulator says it is
connected but I can't
Push and I can't see the APC Rock memory in File
Manager. I'm running
64-bit Windows 7.
2. Use the VGA out.
The OS version is 1.1.0.0 - prerelease. The Platform
version is 18.1.
I can't get any MAC address so I can only connect to WiFi
to systems that
don't need a MAC address.
Is there any forum for APC Rock / Firefox OS users?
What I'm really looking for is some way to download
binaries to a SD card
that I can boot and upgrade to a newer version.
This is potentially cool but I've not seen much about it.
I bought it
direct from VIA APC for $59 and it arrived very quickly
from Taiwan. It
works, it boots, it works. I think this could be an
amazing device for
third-world countries, a great companion to the phone and
tablet.
Any help appreciated.
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