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Raspberry Pi to get Android 4.0
- AlexSerban 14y agoNow that will certainly spice things up.
- tarzan007 14y agowonder what will APC & Gooseberry do now!
- est 14y agoI am not sure if 128MB RAM would run ICS well.
- mtgx 14y agoMost Rapsberry Pi's have 256 MB of RAM. Only the initial batch had 128 MB I think.
- seabee 14y agoModel A is specced for 128 MB, but that's not available yet.
- vardump 14y agoModel A was later respecced to have 256MB as well, just like Model B.
- darkstalker 14y agoThe RAM on the RPi is shared with the GPU, so you have less than 256 MB available
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI still don't understand the desire for Android on non-touch devices. At all... The more exciting bit is XBMC being available in Android, in my opinion. I have XBMC on my desktop, laptop, phone, tablet and raspberry Pi. Using a single app, I can play media from any of those devices to another. It's so simple and elegant and it blows my mind everytime I do it.
- davidarkemp2 14y agoExactly. Android on an underpowered device like the Pi is going to be underwhelming.
- CrazedGeek 14y agoThe ability to run Android apps would be the key. Plus, for an HTPC, Android (tablet UI or Google TV, take your pick) has a much better interface than XBMC, IMO.
- __alexs 14y agoBut the RPi is an awful HTPC, it's way too underpowered and can only barely cope with 720p decoding. It definitely doesn't cope well with having to do composite overlays like XBMC uses to display controls. The FPS you get in the menus is only also only barely acceptable so even if your content does play the experience is choppy. Yes it's cheap, but it still sucks.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoI'm waiting for the day when you can get a raspberry pi style machine that will do full 1080p and will transcode anything I throw at it in real time or faster. It can't be that far off in the future can it? A couple of years maybe?
- Lewton 14y agoBy then we will all have moved on and you'll be waiting for a raspberry pi style machine that will do full 4320p :p
- darklajid 14y agoProbably ready before the update for the LG smartphone I bought. sigh But from the news coverage (don't own one yet myself) it seems that this is a good indicator for a generally healthy tinkering community. Sounds great.
- topbanana 14y agoHere is an image of a CyanogenMod9 build, should anyone want to try it on their Pi: http://www.4shared.com/archive/m_eBBrh_/android_sd_2tar.html http://www.4shared.com/archive/m_eBBrh_/android_sd_2tar.html
- orangethirty 14y agoThis could end up in a lot of industrial type of projects. The raspberry could replace the mini2440 for a lot of things. Heck, even prototyping something with the Pi and Android would allow industries to iterate their equipment faster. Cool stuff.
- pmelendez 14y ago"Raspberry Pi, the credit card sized low cost mini-computer..." Wow.. I am getting old.. I still remember being a kid and read that minicomputers were a cabinet size computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer) as opposite to microcomputers which were desktops... I guess it's time to upgrade definitions :)
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoI'm a 16-year-old and that is also the definition I know. Partly because of the ridiculously out-of-date "Computing Studies" Intermediate 2 Scottish Qualifications course I did at school, but it's mostly because I had the privilege of growing up with Windows 3.1, DOS, and QBASIC, as well as an old book from a used book store for beginners about "Programming Microcoputers". 10 INPUT "Hello! What is your name?", A$ 20 PRINT "Hello there, ", A$