Recently I finally decided to change my car's headunit from a simple plain FM/CD player to something more new.
I was exploring the Android head units and the chinese headunits available in Amazon and Ebay and via my endless Google searches I stumbled upon a "Tablet variation" of a headunit system from the Android Authority guides. That was all I wanted and so I decided to go for the cheap route and choose the tablet method, as I want something that has the full Android experience but at the same time use my tablet at home.
I already have the most parts at hand, like the audio amplifier from my old radio unit (thank god I chose Alpine 8 years ago) and the cables needed to carry out such a project. I intend to use a Joycon EXR to control audio and app usage from my steering wheel.
Anyways, my question is, is there a ROM that uses Google's Android Automotive OS (not Android Auto App), the full Android Automotive OS variant? I know it may be difficult to actually produce such a ROM as only recently Google, released the APIs for developers. Or is there an Android ROM flavour that is minimal/light but at the same time offers the experience of the Automotive OS? I don't want to resort to the available Android launchers designed for such purposes, nor Android Auto, for the obvious reason of spending some time doing something that is fun and challenging. Apart from that, it is a project so any suggestions, ideas and help is greatly appreciated.
Note to moderators: If my thread post is not considered an Android Auto discussion please move it to the relevant category.
I also wonder this. Android Automotive is opensource. And rather then tablet I have crappy chinese noname unit, with standart android preinstalled. I also wonder about how can I transform this to "Android Automotive"
There is a port for Galaxy Tab S5e.
Android Automotive is made for cars but this developer ported it to a Samsung tablet
Android Automotive is designed to run on cars, but that hasn't stopped these developers from porting it to run on a Samsung tablet!
www.xda-developers.com
emirefek said:
I also wonder this. Android Automotive is opensource. And rather then tablet I have crappy chinese noname unit, with standart android preinstalled. I also wonder about how can I transform this to "Android Automotive"
There is a port for Galaxy Tab S5e.
Android Automotive is made for cars but this developer ported it to a Samsung tablet
Android Automotive is designed to run on cars, but that hasn't stopped these developers from porting it to run on a Samsung tablet!
www.xda-developers.com
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You can compile Android Automotive from the AOSP source.
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Is this even possible? I think that device has a potential. It's the crappy software that is preventing me from purchasing it. It would be nice if someone developed true android ports for those cheap Chinese mobile phones so poor college students like myself who do not wish to be locked to a contract can get a cheap phones. I finally found that the Airphone has a processor with the following specs:
Mtek MT6235 ARM9 core, 208MHz Speed CPU
I read somewhere that Android needs at least 200mhz to run, so this processor should be able to support it, right? I am interested in getting into the mobile hacking scene for Android, but I do not know where to begin. If I purchased this mobile phone (its cheap, I can get it for 89$) which tools would I require to begin hacking it?
Yes, I know this mobile phone does not have 3G, but I have no use for that technology on a phone because I have other means of accessing the internet. I like this mobile because it is very very slim, about the same size as my ipod touch. I know so many other people would purchase this phone if it had android instead of the sucky iPhoney OS.
Many thanks!
So many views yet no replies. Do you think I would have better luck asking this in the Official Google Android developer forum? Or is this type of chinese technology as unknown and elusive as I figured it would be?
if the mtek run winmobile
you can try to start android whit haret
i think that the cpu is the same of htc opal(omap 850)
look here
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/wing-linux/wiki
It doesnt run windows mobile unfortunately. It runs a weird OS called "MTK OS", which apparently is a modified version of Nucleus OS.
Hey thanks for your responses! I will take this to the Official Google Android Forum.
Looking to for something like Airphones
I want to play the video on my pc monitor
and steam the audio of this video on my android phone to listen with headphones
linux port
Hello,
some russian guys made a linux port to MT6235 (Google: Linux'у на MT6235 быть (инструкция прилагается))
Starting an Android kernel would be trivial, but RAM is not enough, so Android on MT6235 is useless.
Has anyone ever thought about building their own Android-based vehicle head unit? I'm looking to build an Android Honeycomb system running on a Intel Atom chip (D525MW motherboard). I don't want to insert a tablet into my car dash & I am hoping to stay away from using Windows or Linux. I know its an ambitious idea, building the hardware & the operating system, but if this works it will be an awesome customized head unit.
Is this a completely ridiculous idea that I should abandon & go with a Linux or Windows based setup (or a tablet)? Or is my idea of a custom Android, Atom based vehicle head unit a good idea? Granted I have never developed an android OS myself, but I am willing to do whatever it takes to learn & do this, however long it will take.
If this is a plausible idea, can anyone point me in the direction of a book or two or website(s)?
Hello.
Is it possible to port ios 4 or 5 to make it work to dualboot ios 4/5 and android 3.2.1 on an android tablet? (like my "TF101" )
Cause there is a couple of games on ios that aint or will not be available for android that i want to have.
Long answer no.
GALAXY NOTE
Can i get an explanation why it is impossible? cause im kind of cranky that ios can dualboot ios and android but not the other way...
Is it cause of that android is an open source and ios aint? and that ios only supports arm cpu?
iOS is closed source, it's tightly coupled with Apple's hardware, anyone who attempts to install it on non-Apple hardware is going to get sued by them.
Android is portable because it's open source, anybody can get the source and tweak it to their liking.
If you want iOS, get an iPad or whatever.
That's about it yes.
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iOS is closed source, it's tightly coupled with Apple's hardware, anyone who attempts to install it on non-Apple hardware is going to get sued by them.
Android is portable because it's open source, anybody can get the source and tweak it to their liking.
If you want iOS, get an iPad or whatever.
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I want to get ipad, but lack to its price, tiny storage, poor cpu i stick with android.
But istead of porting ios to android.
Is it easy to port ios apps to android?
Hi all,
I'm looking to purchase and install a relatively capable second hand Android phone (Samsung S5 for example) running a custom ROM such as LineageOS along with an external HDMI+USB touchscreen in a car for use as an in-car gauge display.
However I haven't been able to find much information on how well Android supports third party external touch screen devices other than forum posts from early years such as 2012 and unsolved threads with little information that are a little more recent.
I know a lot of these devices are simply plug and play with Windows without the need to source specific drivers from the manufacturer, but I'm unsure if they're as simple when it comes to Android, a few of them seem to claim they're compatible but I haven't been able to find much proof.
Any and all information would be appreciated.
PS I'm aware there are Android head units available, however I'm looking for something that still has the features of a phone such as GPS and mobile data and third party ROM support.
Does anyone know if there are any other phones than Google Pixel 3 that could be used as HW for developing Android Automotive OS?
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Does anyone know if there are any other phones than Google Pixel 3 that could be used as HW for developing Android Automotive OS?
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Actually I would really like to run Automotive OS on a tablet since the form factory would be then be closed to touch displays in modern cars.