SpacedCowboy
New Member
Hi all 
Here's the deal... I've been developing an app for an embedded Linux / QT environment, and I wanted to explore what it would take to get it ported / working under Android, or perhaps even replacing Android and running on the underlying OS (I've been told that android is often implemented as a user-process sitting on the back-end linux OS running on the device).
I have some small ambition to sell the end-product (it's a very niche market), so it'd be nice if I could somehow boot up directly into the application, rather than the user having to click on anything to get to the app. I don't know if this is possible using Android, or whether I'd have to root the device and drive the frame buffer directly ? I don't mind still using embedded QT to build the app on.
I want a 7" screen, capacitive touch, wifi, 128MB ram, a 600MHz CPU. Anything else is gravy, and I don't like expensive gravy The current embedded solution is ~$200 including the 7" touchscreen, but it's resistive not capacitive so not as good... I was hoping someone could guide me towards the easiest way to get a tablet that could fit the above - which models are 'rootable' if that's required, etc. I'm assuming with 'root', I can do pretty much anything I want...
I don't know if this is even possible with current Android devices. I'm happy to get my hands dirty, just wanted some advice before diving in
Oh, some other small things - the display will need to be on constantly (24/7) and it will be powered. If I have to, I'm happy to rip apart the tablet and re-house, but anything that goes into 'sleep' mode after a few minutes won't really work...
Cheers
Simon
Here's the deal... I've been developing an app for an embedded Linux / QT environment, and I wanted to explore what it would take to get it ported / working under Android, or perhaps even replacing Android and running on the underlying OS (I've been told that android is often implemented as a user-process sitting on the back-end linux OS running on the device).
I have some small ambition to sell the end-product (it's a very niche market), so it'd be nice if I could somehow boot up directly into the application, rather than the user having to click on anything to get to the app. I don't know if this is possible using Android, or whether I'd have to root the device and drive the frame buffer directly ? I don't mind still using embedded QT to build the app on.
I want a 7" screen, capacitive touch, wifi, 128MB ram, a 600MHz CPU. Anything else is gravy, and I don't like expensive gravy
The current embedded solution is ~$200 including the 7" touchscreen, but it's resistive not capacitive so not as good... I was hoping someone could guide me towards the easiest way to get a tablet that could fit the above - which models are 'rootable' if that's required, etc. I'm assuming with 'root', I can do pretty much anything I want...I don't know if this is even possible with current Android devices. I'm happy to get my hands dirty, just wanted some advice before diving in
Oh, some other small things - the display will need to be on constantly (24/7) and it will be powered. If I have to, I'm happy to rip apart the tablet and re-house, but anything that goes into 'sleep' mode after a few minutes won't really work...
Cheers
Simon