Hi, Sorry for the late reply. I agree all the examples must be old now and I'm not sure if anyone will venture into doing it again since Google made it clear they didn't want it.
As for Brillo, the source code is already available actually: https://android.googlesource.com/brillo/manifest/ Regards, Gary On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 4:24:44 PM UTC+1, Evgeny Erlihman wrote: > > Hi Gary, > > I have read your presentation several times before i posted here :) > > I did look at the Brillo OS, unfortunately it is not available for > developers yet. My concern with it is that it targets the smart home > devices while what we are developing here would have a bit more > functionality. So this is the reason that a headless Android seemed like a > perfect match, a great framework with lots of goodies that enables quick > development using the existing building blocks. > I have spent the last week looking for headless Android mode > solutions/examples, but it seems like all the examples are from at least > two years ago... > > Thanks, > Evgeny > > On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 9:14:45 AM UTC-5, Gary Bisson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've made a presentation about just that some time ago: >> http://elinux.org/images/7/7d/Headless_android_strikes_back--gbisson.pdf >> >> BUT, this was based on KitKat, since then the ro.config.headless has been >> completely removed: >> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/ed8902d%5E%21/ >> >> It all depends on what you want to do, but maybe you should wait a little >> bit for more info on Brillo OS. It clearly will be some kind of headless >> Android but without Java though, the SDK is most likely for C/C++. >> >> Regards, >> Gary >> >> On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 9:29:21 PM UTC+1, Evgeny Erlihman wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am thinking about using Android in a product without a screen. Does >>> any body knows about some documentation for building a headless >>> android image and more importantly writing applications to run on it? >>> >>> I found the ro.config.headless flag, but from what i understand it has >>> some issues. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Evgeny >>> >> -- -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-porting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
