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Subject: Re: Rockbox/Android on Freescale i.MX31 based PDA+PMP, player.......developers wanted

Re: Rockbox/Android on Freescale i.MX31 based PDA+PMP, player.......developers wanted

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:43:45 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Jonathan Gordon wrote:

> 2008/6/30 Chun Ming Wong <ericwongcm_at_gmail.com>:
>> But that's won't stop you using Rockbox as the OS itself, right?
>
> You either use rockbox as the OS, or android...

Nope. Android is a Java-layer/GUI thing and the OS is Linux...

> Rockbox as an App might give you the option of running rockbox under
> android, but I doubt thats what you'd want anyway.

If systems that run Android can somehow run native apps (using SDL) I don't
see why Rockbox couldn't run there. After all, Rockbox is perhaps one of the
most suitable and most capable music/media player softwares in existance for
tiny/portable devices.

That "If" is a pretty big one though, as I doubt Android as a concept allows
native apps to be part of the UI.

(And yes, my knowledge about Android is very limited so I just may be totally
wrong here.)

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2008-06-30

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