marmski Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Anyone considered it? http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html Could we be the first? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BorisM Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Ummm, what would you actually do with it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marmski Posted December 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Well, being Opensource platform designed for Smartphones its use's will be limitless. Pretty much anything is possible... Use android with an ability to plug a USB Modem in for Mobile Broadband so your always connected and the world is your limit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BorisM Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 You would still need some Navi software (and even with broadband Google Maps isn't exactly a solution) and I am not aware of too many Navi packages running on Linux. TomTom's PNAs use it but it is for their Linux and their hardware... Just because the platform itself is open source does not mean that you can develop for it any easier than for WinCE (actually development for WinCE is easier) and all hardware drivers for AVIC and for WinCE anyway... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
my_black_RS5 Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 come on people, this would be sick! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bloodninja Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 You would still need some Navi software (and even with broadband Google Maps isn't exactly a solution) and I am not aware of too many Navi packages running on Linux. TomTom's PNAs use it but it is for their Linux and their hardware... Just because the platform itself is open source does not mean that you can develop for it any easier than for WinCE (actually development for WinCE is easier) and all hardware drivers for AVIC and for WinCE anyway... How is Google Maps not exactly a solution? Check out the new Motorola Droid... it uses Google Maps Turn-By-Turn Navigation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FourG Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 You would still need some Navi software (and even with broadband Google Maps isn't exactly a solution) and I am not aware of too many Navi packages running on Linux. TomTom's PNAs use it but it is for their Linux and their hardware... How is Google Maps not exactly a solution? Check out the new Motorola Droid... it uses Google Maps Turn-By-Turn Navigation. It also assumes you've got a data connection at all times. If you don't have a cached source of data/images, it's less than useful. Would love to port Android to our AVIC but like BorisM pointed out we don't yet have enough information about how the Navi board controls the other boards in the system (protocol to talk to AV uCOM ASIC to change audio/video sources and control volume, commands to get data from the MSNDirect chip, control the Parrot handsfree chip, etc). Just because you can boot the alternate OS doesn't mean it's useful without a large amount of effort to re-create the drivers and support libraries for the custom peripherals that were written and tested on the old OS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
my_black_RS5 Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 this could be a community effort. someone put together a plan and let's do this! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
diegoapavi Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 You must be joking... You want to create a whole new firmware, forget about whichever OS you are going to run it on (Android, Linux, WM...). It looks almost impossible...well, if you work on it 10 hours/day during a year maybe, but I think it´d be better not to waste time on such a difficult project. (PS: It´s my opinnion ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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