Hi I have some "basic" questions about Android on FriendlyArm, specifically the 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) First question ... what is the best source of documentation about the Android porting for FriendlyArm ? Second question, I didn't see installed Google Play or the old Market, so what is the best way to install applications ? I did it just using a SD card but it should be possible to install from the net. Thanks for any help ! STeve
Download the very latest sources from the arm9home.net website, these have the play store installed + access to the play store via ethernet. http://www.arm9home.net/read.php?tid-27934.html That is the thread with the links to the baidu cloud account, you will need to join the forum, then reply to the thread to see the download links. I would suggest using google chrome as it has a built in translator.
Thanks !! I'll go immediately to take a look !! Probably I'll have more questions and hopefully some answers to share here ! Btw, I have a Tiny210SDK-CAP7 kit where I'm working on. STeve
Reggie, do you know if exists some alternative site for the Android stuff ? The Chinese website they are using (baidu) is incredibly slow and unreliable, at least with me. I'm downloading the two DVDs but after hours and hours I'm not even close to half of that, it seems to be back with the glorious modem V22 :) Thanks STeve
It seems the latest load from the Chinese website doesn't exists anymore :( When I try to connect to the baidu website with my account, from the arm9 post, I receive the message : "Uh-oh, you come late, file sharing has been canceled, next to early yo." Yesterday I tried to download the two DVDs many different times but the connection went bad always before to finish to download the code. And now is not possible to download anything. Any other possible source for the latest version of Android for FriendlyARM and also some instructions about how to install the Android image ? From the ftp website the newest is dated December 2012 and I suspect is the one I already have on my Tiny210SDK-CAP7. Other the problem to don't have the google play, it seems the Android SDK (adb) is unable to identify the baord in debug mode (permission problem). I spent a lot of hours trying to set up the udev system as I did for other terminals but there is no way so far to have the SDK board working with the adb. It recognize "something" is attached but is not granting debug access. Thanks for any suggestion STeve
The only way to find them is via the arm9home.net website, look out for the tiny210v2 or mini210s latest cd or dvd sources. When you get onto baidu, you're much better off downloading each file individually, it's much quicker and usually succeeds. It's annoying but you will get the files that way.
as for adb, not sure what to say, it does work and it should work. If it's a permissions issue then you should be able to enable it in the settings menu somewhere, they also have supersu installed for root access, so if there are issues with adb, it's most likely the driver and you probably need to edit the vid/pid in the driver inf file in windows to match whatever the mini210s shows up as in windows.
Thanks for the answers. I'm trying to download the single files .. really painfully slow :) About adb, I edited the udev like I did for other Android terminals but so far it seems impervious to any setting. My development system is based on Linux, Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 12.04. The lsusb returns a device with 18d1:4e22, it seems like a generic Google tablet appliance like Nexus but the permission is always negated. STeve
Yeah, it is a bit on the slow side, it's unfortunate but I know people are trying to solve the issue and get it uploaded where people can get at it faster. Unfortunately, at some point yesterday the 'A' dvd disappeared from baidu, hopefully they're doing an update. As for getting adb setup, you might need to read the mini210s user manual, they use the same chip and most of the same kernel, so the instructions should be valid for getting adb setup. I know it can be a little bit of a pain getting things setup initially but for the most part, I didn't have too many issues, the only real one was ignoring the fedora centric side of the instructions. I did notice talk on the chinese website about a fedora VM, I haven't looked at it yet, it's a big download :( You might also find a linux app. called 'aria2c' http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ set it up relatively high for max connections I think and then use the -s? split command which will allow it to do 8 or so connections at a time, this will greatly increase the download speed. for the split size, you'll have to adjust it per file, so for a 100MB file use -s10M for a 2GB file you can use -s50M etc.