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:

System desktop
Clock
Boot
GOOGLE search

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

Support on Oxdroid
http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/
http://gitorious.org/0xlab-kernel