Disclaimer: Their may be some native apps using Googles API for this but I needed a real IRC server... In the sense I can see the source code. Since my purpose was to deploy a network.
Hi I spent a long time reading about how to get an IRC server on my android so people could talk inside my pocket. So long that I realised it would be easier to just cross compile it for myself. However I ran into a kid under the alias of "CoreDuo" who had already done this for us!!! He cross compiled the UnrealIrcd server for many different phones! Armv7's included!
All you need to do first is install linux either nativly or chrooted on your android. I chose Backtrack5 and recommend it because it comes with an Apache server preconfigured that works out of the box. Plus lots of other goodies for hackers and coders alike.
Ok here is the link you need: http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...e.uk/category/unrealircd/+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk
For example since I was installing on the MB860 and since that has an ARMv7 processor I used this link: http://dl.coreduo.me.uk/unreal-arm7-palm.tar.gz
Good luck and if you need anyhelp email me at [email protected]
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Not to sure if anyone has heard of Hexxeh before but here is a short wiki descript regarding Chromium OS builds: "By May 2010, compiled versions of the work-in-progress source code had been downloaded from the Internet more than a million times. The most popular version was created by Liam McLoughlin, a 17-year-old college student in Manchester, England, posting under the name "Hexxeh". McLoughlin's builds boot from a USB memory stick and included features that Google engineers had not yet implemented, such as support for the Java programming language"
Anyhow several Google videos show that he has successfully managed to boot one of his Chromium OS builds called "Flow" on a tablet. And was wondering if anyone has thought about doing this.
His main website: http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
I've used Flow on a laptop. Not very useful on a tablet - it's basically just a back end for a web browser, with no (well, minimal) apps. Useful for giving to the kids to play web games without breaking your system. However, using the Android OS built for tablets you get access to all the apps.
Looks like someone is working on it!
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/chrome-os-tablet-from-acer-outed-by-bug-reports-20110428/
Hello all, I have a question about developing an application for my graduation project. The idea is to develop an application in which the various books/information sources get a place and can be placed under different semesters/years. The information as provided has to have an easy way of updating for teachers(probbebly web-based). The aplication also has to work on iOS. Can you guys give me an idea on how to start i think HTML5 is a good option.
For cross platform application you can try PhoneGap(phonegap.com) with Dojo (dojotoolkit.org).
Front end is only half!
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Hello all, I have a question about developing an application for my graduation project. The idea is to develop an application in which the various books/information sources get a place and can be placed under different semesters/years. The information as provided has to have an easy way of updating for teachers(probbebly web-based). The aplication also has to work on iOS. Can you guys give me an idea on how to start i think HTML5 is a good option.
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HTML5 will be great, but it will be difficult for a school to update as a native app. I suggest simply using a mobile-ready website. jQuery Mobile is great for this, and it handles all the cross platform issues. Have you given any consideration to serverside code? Php, .Net, and Node.js are all great options. Talk with an administrator about what kind of system they use to store files & links currently. You could fairly simply make a page that scans a file share they maintain to build the page .
Are all current (including budget) phones capeble of running .net or PHP? I'll probebly host the site/app myselve for a while during the test phase so if i go web-based it will be PHP since my host is a linux host. I'll have a look tomorrow, I'm studying to be an officer on a ship not an programmer so all programming is new, I did some vb/php but nothing fancy.
i started with icenium, but found out that icenium doesn't offer to store the webfiles on your own server. So thats not an option.
Hi all
Does anyone know if I can run kde-based software on the developer alpha of Ubuntu for tablets yet please? Not expecting reliability, just want to do some child user testing of the edubuntu suite on tablets.
Thanks
Chris
Currently you can't and probably neither in the near futur 'cause you need an X Server for that.
And there is no X server on ubuntu touch.
Huge thanks, that is really useful
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Currently you can't and probably neither in the near futur 'cause you need an X Server for that.
And there is no X server on ubuntu touch.
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After some research on your reply I've a couple questions. Does it mean the Unity interface doesn't need X-server? Or are they just using a temporary workaround until X-server is implemented?
And does this apply to both Ubuntu for Android, and Ubuntu for tablets?
Huge thanks
Having done some further research I've made my decision - thanks hugely for providing the missing link in my knowledge. What follows is my best interpretation of the rumours.
Currently in place of X-server is SurfaceFlinger, ("because X-server uses 30 yr old code" - Canonical). Canonical publicly dabbled with using Wayland until mid-Feb, then decided to create their own revamped display server from scratch, called Mir, which they seem to have been working on since mid last year, and are trying to get GPU vendors to support, written to run across all devices and to meet the needs of the Unity interface, and written in Qt/QML which is what they want native apps written in.
Bottom line for me, is that the technology is still right up there in the clouds and nowhere near decided enough to base my business strategy on. Also, Ubuntu for tablets seems a pretty thin version of Ubuntu anyway, so Edubuntu was never an option and I'm unlikely to be able to leverage much from Ubuntu's Open Source libraries anyway.
Like others, (see the comment on jonobacon.org below), I find it frustrating that the wealth of code written for Ubuntu is no longer usable, but I reckon this is probably necessary to squeeze the most out of every single CPU cycle and milliamp. Ubuntu for tablet is dead in the water if it kills the battery and performs worse than the established competitors.
Therefore all indications are I need to write for Android, keeping my options as open as possible to migrate. So it is now Titanium/UnityIDE versus HTML5, particularly assessing relative performance.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/canonical-announce-custom-display-server-mir-not-wayland-not-x
http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/02/21/five-ubuntu-touch-facts/ -- not the article but the comment starting "In that case, wouldn't it be better to port existing apps instead of...."
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/02/canonical-working-on-new-display-server
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwOTM
Just to clarify.
1. There are plans to make a X-Mir compatibility layer that will allow you to run programs that require an X-Server to work with mir.
2. Not all is lost at the moment it just looks that way.
Only Graphical Userinterfaces are affected. Your commandline tools and libraries don't need to be changed.
3. If you are looking for platform to write apps for, well there is worke being done to let you run your QML apps (intended for ubuntu touch) on android.
So if you choose to make QML apps they can be or will be able to run on linux, mac, windows and android
Wow, huge thanks, I missed that.
Does this mean EVERYTHING Ubuntu without a GUI will work? I want to run a NodeJS server. How likely is it that it will work perfectly now? How likely is it that it will work perfectly in the (nominally October 2013) release? (Sorry, just give me a keyword and I'll go off and do my research.)
Is Canonical planning to get X-Mir into the next ~Oct release?
My other query was whether QML on Android would perform as well. For others interested, it looks like it works directly with the Android SurfaceFlinger, bypassing the Dalvik VM, so performance should compare with native Java code.
Huge thanks once again
Chris
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkubKZaUt8
http://victorpalau.net/2013/01/25/ubuntu-qml-todo-android-vs-ubuntu/
Hi!
Some guys and me are working on Android now for long time. Most times we had clear different parts we where working on, so two guys working on kernels, one on adaption of Android, one was testing and keeping contact to the community.
Now, cloning a kernel and merging some changes on drivers is a simple thing. And even changing a file on android, putting it into a git or simply on an ftp is easy too...
Well, now things have changed. Android is getting more complex and kernel work is mostly done.So we do more and more work in Android with more and more people.
Ok, one would say, take a plain android by using repo sync. Add your vendor parts for kernel and android and add them as a separate git. Ready you are...
Unfortunately that may work if you build your own device, based on plain naked android and a well supported mainlined kernel... But reality is different and chinese reality is even different^2. Hacking andoid devices where you do not have access to the OEM gits, kernels, not even datasheets or schematics is a hell of work... and all of these OEMs just checked out the complete android, put it in their own git and modified 1000 parts 'n pieces of it.
This isn't only a problem of bandwidth to upload such a monster, but all your friends supporting you have to clone that monster again. And after a while a new android version comes and you have great mess:
You cannot find differences from your old version to the new google version as many files have been changed by the OEM.
But you cant just "repo upload" cause google or CM might not be very eager to get dumb chinese deep down below android changes in their repos.
How do you team up with others and sync your android changes? Is there a good tutorial that handles not only the way it should be, but covers all these real-life issues?
I'd really appreciate your tips
Astralix
I, for one, am kind of upset that we don't at least have coreutils by default on Android, especially on awesome ROMs like CyanogenMod. Can anyone attribute a rhyme or reason for this, other than "it came that way and we didn't want to package coreutils?" We're certainly not lacking the 2MB required by coreutils, but I suppose this is more of a rant than anything.
Getting to the actual point: has anyone tried compiling OpenSSH Client for Android? I'm specifically looking for the ssh-agent and the ssh client itself, as Dorpbear (sorry, Dropbear) doesn't seem to provide agent forwarding and is incredulously annoying and won't let me do my work.
How does one begin tinkering with compiling a software project for Android? I'd be happy just statically-linking the thing and adb pushing it to /system/bin. Any guides available on getting started?