Devkit8000 Android

This page offers some guide and suggestions on Android Development on Embest Devkit8000 board.

=Development environment=
 * Hardware: Embest Devkit8000 based on TI OMAP3530 ARM Cortex-A8 processor
 * Software: Android based on Linux2.6.27 kernel

=Android Display= Below pictures shows some current Android porting solution on Devkit8000: Captured Android image from Frambuffer:

=Android Demonstration=

SD card format
Please refer to LinuxBootDiskFormat

Preparations
After you have mounted SD card successfully, please do following operations (note: LABEL1 and LABEL2 are two partitions of SD card) cp /media/cdrom/linux/demo/android/MLO /media/LABEL1 cp /media/cdrom/linux/demo/android/u-boot.bin /media/LABEL1 cp /media/cdrom/linux/demo/android/uImage /media/LABEL1 rm –rf /media/LABEL2/* sudo tar jxvf linux/demo/ android/RFS.tar.bz2 –C /media/LABEL2 sync umount /media/LABEL1 umount /media/LABEL2

=Android Development=

beagleboard has made a very good porting solution, you can also refer to it for Devkit8000: http://labs.embinux.org/index.php/Android_Porting_Guide_to_Beagle_Board