On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 09:45 +0100, Anton Lundin wrote: > Hi. > > One idea i bin playing with is how to make the Android port capable of > downloading data from divecomputers. > > Android doesn't contain a serial api, and it doesn't include the usual > usb-serial drivers that comes along in the Linux source tree. > > It provides enough attachment points as far as i can understand that we > would be capable to run a usb-serial driver in userspace. > > The current Android builds contains libdivecomputer and libusb. To make > this possible we would need to extend libdivecomputer to talk to usb > devices in other ways on android. There are a bunch of libraries to talk > to the most common usb-serial chips available.[1,2,3] > > > I don't know now the Gsoc ideas list work, but his might be a interesting > task to put on that list. A good scope would probably be to create a > downloader-only port of subsurface for the time being.
You should be able to simply edit the wiki page, Anton. I think this is a great idea. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
