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So wait, does the new device run Android? Their site doesn't lead me to believe it does, and google searches only return stories of people failing to run Androi

by kogir 18y ago

So wait, does the new device run Android? Their site doesn't lead me to believe it does, and google searches only return stories of people failing to run Android on the last one.

nirmal 18y ago
The software stack was developed long before Android was around. There's a good graphic describing the software here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Software http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Software I believe the are enabling android to run "beside" their stack.
- krschultz 18y ago
  Correct, OpenMoko uses the CacaoVM with GNUClasspath for Java - although it is primarily not a Java device. Android is running the DarvickVM which is not actually Java, and runs a Java syntax on top of it. Though the code is compatible, byte code is not, so binary packages for OpenMoko or Android will not run on each other. Thus the two stacks need to be side by side, or you need to rebuild all the packages from one for the other.
pmorici 18y ago
It runs Linux so you could probably make android work on it.