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Has anyone ever thought about building their own Android-based vehicle head unit? I'm looking to build an Android Honeycomb system running on a Intel Atom chip (D525MW motherboard). I don't want to insert a tablet into my car dash & I am hoping to stay away from using Windows or Linux. I know its an ambitious idea, building the hardware & the operating system, but if this works it will be an awesome customized head unit.
Is this a completely ridiculous idea that I should abandon & go with a Linux or Windows based setup (or a tablet)? Or is my idea of a custom Android, Atom based vehicle head unit a good idea? Granted I have never developed an android OS myself, but I am willing to do whatever it takes to learn & do this, however long it will take.
If this is a plausible idea, can anyone point me in the direction of a book or two or website(s)?
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
after reading the description, i'm confused about whether it's ubuntu running on top of android, or it's dual booting
anyways, hopefully we get it working on touchpad
From the way it looks it works only if you plug it into a tv out via hdmi and it runs inside android. I imagine this will only be for a very few select phones.
No source, speculations all the way.
Straight From the description:
" Easy to integrate to your Android phone
Ubuntu for Android drops in cleanly alongside the rest of Android, so it is easy to integrate into current production roadmaps. The hardware requirements are straightforward and, with a broad range of ARM and x86 hardware supported, it can realistically be added to phones already in development.
Of course, your phone needs the docking capability and hardware support for HDMI and USB. But that’s standard for high-end models in the current generation of devices in development"
samsky said:
Straight From the description:
" Easy to integrate to your Android phone
Ubuntu for Android drops in cleanly alongside the rest of Android, so it is easy to integrate into current production roadmaps. The hardware requirements are straightforward and, with a broad range of ARM and x86 hardware supported, it can realistically be added to phones already in development.
Of course, your phone needs the docking capability and hardware support for HDMI and USB. But that’s standard for high-end models in the current generation of devices in development"
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And there's the nail in the coffin for touchpad buntu....
I am developing a new Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) app for interfacing with a standalone product. I am interested in using the new Intel Atom based Android tablets, but I cannot find if they support the Android BLE APIs. Are any of you aware of these Intel based tablets not supporting certain hardware interfaces (such as BLE)?
Thanks for the help!
NJC
A lot of these tablets are running 4.2 or earlier. BLE is only supported in 4.3 or later. I know that Dell has some
Hi everyone,
Today, I'm asking you about something a little bit more specific that just what kind of hardware should I use to develop on Android.
Indeed, I'm currently working on a multi-part project based on Android, mixing software and hardware parts.
I've got my Nexus 5 which is quite good as a development platform but it's my personal phone and, well, it would be quite ****ty if I bricked it.
So, now I need a development board with the following hardware:
Procs: ARM Quad procs 64Bits or Intel Dual/Quad 64Bits
RAM: 2GB Ram minimum
Storage: 16Gb / 32 Gb
System-Storage: eMMC Flash NAND 4Gb
Connectivity: BTLE 4.0 - Wifi b/n/ac - LTE/LTE-A
Even if the product do not have all the requirements, the Intel EDISON platform seems gorgeous to me as it has the perfect size/form factor for my project.
Unfortunately it do not support Android Out of the box, and I'll have to provide extra migration effort if I use this board for my project.
So, my question is, how do you proceed when you've got a multi-part project?
Why kind of dev board do you use? Do you develop on a relatively close to the finished product platform or do you use a more versatile devboard and then create prototypes etc on another project phase?
Recently I finally decided to change my car's headunit from a simple plain FM/CD player to something more new.
I was exploring the Android head units and the chinese headunits available in Amazon and Ebay and via my endless Google searches I stumbled upon a "Tablet variation" of a headunit system from the Android Authority guides. That was all I wanted and so I decided to go for the cheap route and choose the tablet method, as I want something that has the full Android experience but at the same time use my tablet at home.
I already have the most parts at hand, like the audio amplifier from my old radio unit (thank god I chose Alpine 8 years ago) and the cables needed to carry out such a project. I intend to use a Joycon EXR to control audio and app usage from my steering wheel.
Anyways, my question is, is there a ROM that uses Google's Android Automotive OS (not Android Auto App), the full Android Automotive OS variant? I know it may be difficult to actually produce such a ROM as only recently Google, released the APIs for developers. Or is there an Android ROM flavour that is minimal/light but at the same time offers the experience of the Automotive OS? I don't want to resort to the available Android launchers designed for such purposes, nor Android Auto, for the obvious reason of spending some time doing something that is fun and challenging. Apart from that, it is a project so any suggestions, ideas and help is greatly appreciated.
Note to moderators: If my thread post is not considered an Android Auto discussion please move it to the relevant category.
I also wonder this. Android Automotive is opensource. And rather then tablet I have crappy chinese noname unit, with standart android preinstalled. I also wonder about how can I transform this to "Android Automotive"
There is a port for Galaxy Tab S5e.
Android Automotive is made for cars but this developer ported it to a Samsung tablet
Android Automotive is designed to run on cars, but that hasn't stopped these developers from porting it to run on a Samsung tablet!
www.xda-developers.com
emirefek said:
I also wonder this. Android Automotive is opensource. And rather then tablet I have crappy chinese noname unit, with standart android preinstalled. I also wonder about how can I transform this to "Android Automotive"
There is a port for Galaxy Tab S5e.
Android Automotive is made for cars but this developer ported it to a Samsung tablet
Android Automotive is designed to run on cars, but that hasn't stopped these developers from porting it to run on a Samsung tablet!
www.xda-developers.com
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You can compile Android Automotive from the AOSP source.