A tiny little heads-up on android community happenings and OMAP presence in community.
Android Community
While Google develops/maintains android exclusively in-house, Mailing lists, IRC were prominent portals for public developers to interact with peer developers around globe and Google engineers too.
Android-Porting, Android-Kernel, Android-Platform, etc, were few popular discussion groups. [http://source.android.com/community/index.html]
TI Android support
We got dedicated OMAPAndroid-Discussion gforge portal-mailinglist to address issues faced by community/customers/TI developers.
As we all very much aware, OMAPPedia portal serves great for all internal/external customers.
OMAP Android Projects
We got many OMAP projects actively going outside OPBU too. Few I’m aware of are,
- Mentor Graphics: Android Development support on OMAP [Whitepaper]
- BeagleBoard Projects: Should I add beagleboard redefined OMAP reachability J? Few projects rowboat, embinux
- Elinux Portal: Android on OMAP
- ... many i guess :)
Android-Porting community
I’m especially interested in this community, as the posts are nothing different from our daily L25x/L27x issues.
Queries posted gets good deal of attention from peer android porting engineers across world, and the key point is frequent direct responses from Google engineers.
Quite surprised initially to see like 2 out of 5 questions were on OMAP, beagle board, zoom. Even on 3430 SDP J
Few TIIers (Akash Choudhari, Keith Deacon, Girish, Myslef, etc...) were members already and active.
Few sample threads from Android-Porting community: (sample threads started/resolved by us)
Video player - native application (HDMI background playback issue. but we took our own hack fix)
Minimum Android 2.2 (froyo) hardware requirements (Keith’s response to Froyo on OMAP)
PS.
Why I love Android?
I can tweet my patch., and was too much excited first time to see my work that public :)
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