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Ok. So my company purchased two 7" Android tablets pre-production from China. They turned out to actually not be "real" android as it seems to be running a skinned down Android on top of Windows CE. We are looking to place Android tablets in retail locations for a pilot test. I'm looking for a developer that would be able to do one or both of the following:
1) Put REAL Android on here. It doesn't matter whether it is 1.5, 1.6, etc. but we don't want Windows running in the background for the obvious reasons.
2) Develop a VERY simple (but pretty) application for a registration process that would guide the user through entering the values for the questions we are asking. The trick to this app is we also need a way to completely lock the device down so that the user can only use that app. Maybe a hidden button in a corner that would prompt for a password so that we could get out of the app.
We would gladly send one of these tablets and let the dev keep them for their time and we would also be willing to discuss pay based on time invested. Please PM if interested. Pics of the units below:
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Anyone interested?

Bump...........

Porting Android to this device is probably an insanely time consuming and difficult project. Just look at the Android porting projects for various Non-android HTC Devices such as the Touch Pro/Diamond. Takes for ages as drivers needs to be written, etc...
I think you would be better of thrashing those fake tablets and maybe do some proper research next time you buy something from China..

Latest review - hardware zone

Yep, another largely positive review

I didn't know it had an FM-radio??
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thanks for posting the link!
hmm not bad..
"Unlike the default Android home screens, the Samsung home screens always start from the leftmost side (like an iPhone), making you swipe through 6 screens just to get to an app or widget on the 7th page."
he can click on the circles to access the 7th page immediately, which is faster than having to "multi-touch" to get an overview of all screens and then selecting..
"The Samsung unlock screen is in our opinion more confusing than the default Android 2.1 unlock screen"
lol......... he can swipe it any direction he wants to access the phone.. how is that confusing..
"To post something on Facebook or Twitter, you have to use the confusingly-named and designed Write and Go app, which looks more like a notepad."
design looks fine and simple to me of write and go..
"There are almost no delays throughout the system (except when installing apps, as on other Android phones); programs open and close almost instantly,"
yay, phew.. many were complaining about slow and laggy browsing so that's good to hear.
nice battery life test and that's with 100% brightness which I will never use, so that's cool =D
strange that sony x10 performs so bad... I would not have expected that..
"At very, very few times - fewer than any other Android phone in the gigahertz speed class - did we notice slowdowns or jerky scrolling in the Android UI itself."
awesome

Samsung hires Android hacker ‘Cyanogen’

So it looks like our Samsung phones may actually get much better now!!!
http://www.telecoms.com/31956/samsung-hires-android-hacker-cyanogen
Samsung hires Android hacker ‘Cyanogen’
While some device vendors are stockpiling patents, others are hunting down talent, as competition in the mobile handset space heats up. It was revealed this week that Samsung Mobile has hired one of the homebrew market’s most notorious and successful Android hackers, Steve ‘Cyanogen’ Kondik.
Kondik is best known as the creator of the CyanogenMod for Android, an after market customized firmware bringing new features and functionality to the Android platform.
There’s no information yet on whether Samsung is interested in CyanogenMod, or more in Kondik himself, but the programmer and hacker has said the move will allow him to use his talents in “the real world,” while development of CyanogenMod continues as usual.
The Cyanogen firmware caters to more than 40 different Android devices and brings such functionality as native theming, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), an OpenVPN client, USB tethering, and claims increased performance and reliability over official firmware releases. Kondik has on occasion received input from Google on the development of the platform and as of mid-July it had been downloaded and installed on more than half a million devices.

we already been over this..

sammy n cm7 goes hand in hand

Android hacker? Lolz. He's a developer........

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new Nexus 6p update fixes 810 performance problems

According to https://plus.google.com/+FranciscoFranco1990/posts/dXBtugbiy2A (by the author of Franco's kernel)
Not only its performance has improved due to numerous changes in the framework + Kernel, it proves the so much criticised Snapdragon 810 runs beautifully and cold as **** when the software implementation is right. An un****able Android version without OEM/carrier **** or ridiculous UI **** ups, with proper tuning (Marshmallow really did up its game when setting up different tasks to sets of cpus as I explained earlier).
Click to expand...
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Also http://m.imgur.com/a/xExse
do you think these patches be ported to OPT ?

If so then Francisco is the guy to do it, his involvement seems to be quite official too as Adam Krisko (The community manager for OnePlus) seems to have been the one who supplied Francisco with a nice new OnePlus 2 and a OnePlus X :
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https://plus.google.com/+FranciscoFranco1990/posts/egKJs4JqiwR
Since the official Marshmallow version is out for the OnePlus 2 this month (quite possibly the X also), it could be coming with a kernel supplied by Francisco, most likely with the optimisation you mentioned. (It's more likely they will try to release the official Marshmallow with Franco also releasing his kernel around the same time).
Which, in my book, is ALL good. Our phone could finally be becoming the "Flagship killer" it was meant to be.

Spoof android.software.leanback feature

Hello,
I'm in the process of developing a single Android application that runs on multiple different types of devices.
From normal smartphone, tablet to Android TV.
The layouts and styling for each tend to look quite different.
To manually test these applications I can resort to using emulators.
A big downside to emulators is that they tend to take up a lot of valuable resources from the development machine.
Therefor I prefer using real devices. (Ideally just 1 device).
I can use my smartphone to test both the normal layout AND
with the help of the smallest width option in the developer settings I can also test the tablet layout.
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However there is no such option available to spoof/fake Android TV/Google TV on my test smartphone.
AFAIK Android has a kind of prioritisation which layout it tries to inflate.
When it detects a device that has the android.software.leanback feature it will inflate the TV-layout which typically resides in the `layout-television` folder.
Programmatically I check it as such:
Java:
getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_LEANBACK));
// PackageManager.FEATURE_LEANBACK == "android.software.leanback"
Reference documentation https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager#FEATURE_LEANBACK
Since this system feature is missing for normal smartphones it will never work.
You can find the supported features with:
Code:
adb shell pm list features
After some digging I found you can add these system features when you have root access.
They are kept in the /system/etc/permissions folder.
So I simply copy-pasted the `tv_core_hardware.xml` from the Android source code after which I briefly saw my phone render my application in Android TV.
Also the hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_LEANBACK) returned true!
Unfortunately the screens goes completely black after a second or two and reboots in panic mode.
TLDR; How can you force Android TV on a rooted smartphone/tablet?
FYI my rooted test device is an OnePlus 6
Thanks in advance.