Introduction Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project providing instructions for building your own Linux system from scratch. If you have not already, I recommend you visiting their homepage http://www.linuxfromscratch.org. LFS has many flavors, and […]
Introduction The Android open-source project (AOSP) is quite complex and it can be hard to find a good way to get more familiar with it. I’m going to try a practical approach, by adding […]
Introduction Since Ubuntu 10.04 is still the only fully supported OS when building the Android source code (according to http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html), you might run into trouble when trying to compile it on an OS with different […]
I have two computers running 64-bit Linux (one Gentoo box and one Arch Linux box), which I use for Android development. Both of them had the same problem when trying to start the Android […]
Introduction If you, like me, are tired of burning the latest version of your favorite Linux distribution to a CD/DVD every time a new version comes out, this multi-os installation stick might solve the […]
Preparing the Arduino The Arduino firmware is a simple program receiving a toggle LED command from the connected Android device. Some parts are taken from the USB Host Shield 2.0 library. Connect the USB Host […]
Getting into detail The Android application is a simple demo that toggles a LED connected to the accessory (the Arduino UNO). The Android code can be found under the java directory in the source git: […]
This is the first post in a serie describing how to get started with the Google ADK using an Arduino UNO and the Circuits@Home USB host shield. The title of the post actually lies a bit, because […]
Mocking Context Testing in Android can be complex, especially when your component is not isolated from the Android framework. One example of this is when your component is performing file system tasks using Context. […]
This is a small post on how to set up your Arduino development environment without using the crappy Arduino IDE. The setup uses an Arduino Uno. The current version of Ubuntu (at this time it […]