On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, dawydiuk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Their seems to be quite a bit of buzz around Android recently. As a
> result we've kicked around the idea of porting Android to one of our
> boards, but it's difficult to know if our customers would have any
> interest in Android. I think the general consensus at TS regarding
> Android is it would be good from a marketing standpoint, but not
> necessarily from an engineering standpoint. Although, I'm really
> curios to know if we are on the same page as our customers.
>
> To my understanding the major benefit of Android is it raises the
> level of abstraction of the hardware by providing a Java API. That
> is TS would have to write JNI routines for all custom hardware. This
> higher level of abstraction may be good from a productivity
> standpoint, although the higher level of abstraction is also a
> negative(e.g. undeterministic garbage collection, more resources
> required...).
>
> We'd be interested to here what everyone thinks...?
would it really be that much of a challenge, given that there's
already a working port on the ARM-based beagleboard? or are there
other issues at work here?
rday
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