Part 1: Build an Android app on RIoTBoard

RE: Part 1: Build an Android app on RIoTBoard

bluescreen — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:48:37 GMT

Hi Guys.

Just a quick heads-up that Part 2 is now posted. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-928610ee-8f3f-466f-b83a-e624bae655af/8637.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

RE: Part 1: Build an Android app on RIoTBoard

Former Member — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:11:27 GMT

Hi again!

I have some more questions:

Is there a Wlan USB stick avail, working with the RIoTboard? Inside the system I found this: /device/wifi/softmac

I have try to get access with telnet. It dosn't work, how can I enable this feature?

With the tool SerialPort_1.1.apk I can see some serial devices: ttyGS0 to ttyGS3 (g_serial) and ttymxc0 to ttymxc2 (IMX-uart). How are these ports are mappe to the expansion connector?

Where are the devices like SPI and I2C?

Thank you

André Riesberg

RE: Part 1: Build an Android app on RIoTBoard

Former Member — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:47:17 GMT

Part 2 will be posted shortly....

I don't want to anticipate, but I can't found the board with "adb devices". So I can't install needed software like gideros play.

RE: Part 1: Build an Android app on RIoTBoard

Former Member — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:49:58 GMT

Sorry-- I have to say it again: 4 USB-A ports!

Yes, but as the iMX6 only has a single usb host controller, these are provided by an on-board 4-port usb hub. Unfortunately that's an important distinction.

There was a thread a couple of months ago where the poster wanted to use multiple USB composite capture devices (sorry, can't find it anymore) on either RPi or BBB and the problem quickly becomes one of bandwidth as they have the same problem of only actually having a single host controller. Having four ports each with their own host controller would have allowed for 4x the bandwidth.

The BBB saves a couple of $ here by only providing a single physical port and if you want more, then you use your own hub. There's little practical difference, but the BBB ends up a little bit cheaper

RE: Part 1: Build an Android app on RIoTBoard

Former Member — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:02:20 GMT

Because the RIoTBoard is able to show us all kinds of detail on a large monitor so we can really optimize our app before releasing it into the wild.

I'm not exactly the smartphone type. I see lots of value in a large high resolution screen. But isn't the point here that you want to optimize your app for a physically tiny screen on a phone ? Something that works well on a big screen might not on a small one.