Project Ara Developers Conference 2015 ( DevCon2 ) All Videos - Project Ara General

After a long wait google finally uploaded all devcon 2 video's just watched some they are really interesting so i created a dedicated thread for them here Project ara devcon2 videos
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[utility] for Android Game developers to record video while playing

Attention All Android Game Developers!
We are excited to announce the limited availability of SeeMeGaming SDK plugin, which enables the recording of game play on Android devices.
In our following release we will enable posting of the recorded videos to YouTube and sharing on Facebook for your users automatically.
At this moment we are looking for several game developers who would like to try the alpha release of the SDK and provide feedback. In return, we will promote your game via the created videos at our booth in Game Developer Conference (GDC) on March 6-8 in San Francisco.
As a game developer you:
Get a FREE SDK that is simple to integrate
Get the ability to record gameplay for your demos
Get more exposure as your users share their game play
Enable your game to have social factors in under 5 minutes
Get FREE marketing via your videos running at GDC in our booth
Your users:
Get new functionality for FREE
Playing your game is now social experience
Allows them to share their best gameplay and become heroes
You can see an example of recording here: http://www.lunarg.com/seemegaming/

[29Jan][ANNOUNCE] & [PORTING NEWS] thread for HADK releases (1.0.3 revised 29Jan)

Hi there,
this is a thread for the HADK. Here you will find the official release notes from jolla for the HADK and maybe general discussion about it. So have fun and lets take the porting adventure to somewhere we can't imagine!
IMPORTANT:
The Images you will build with HADK are under the EULA of Sailfish OS. Please explain to interested users that this is not production quality (you know the watermark) to prevent misunderstandings in functional behaviour!!!
Official irc channel for porters:
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #sailfishos-porters
HADK 1.0 EA1
Official announcement from jolla:
Von:Simonas Leleiva [email protected]
An:Simonas Leleiva [email protected]
Betreff:The first Sailfish OS Hardware Adaptation Development Kit (HADK) Release (EA1)
Datum:July 18, 2014 15:48
Dear early adopter of Sailfish OS for Android devices. This is important
- read this whole mail through and follow all steps exactly as written.
IMPORTANT: If you choose to publish this mail through blogs, news sites,
forums, or others, quote it as-is and in complete form ONLY, or people's
devices may be at risk.
We are extremely happy to release the EA1 version of the Sailfish OS
Hardware Adaptation Development Kit (HADK), which describes how to port
Sailfish OS to existing devices based on CyanogenMod 10.1.
CM version 11.0 and AOSP versions will be supported eventually (and you
can help to make this happen faster!)
Note that Sailfish OS images yielding from this documentation are likely
to be under Sailfish OS EULA.
We are excited to welcome you all to this adventurous porting journey.
We want to build a community around Sailfish OS for Android devices that
is based on mutual trust and respect for what we are all doing. Hence --
we ask that whenever you do screenshots, videos, forum or blog posts or
the like (and we're happy if you do!), you emphasise that this is an
work-in-progress effort and not a productised release. It is important
for Jolla that correct expectations are set for those who might be users
of the final product -- and that they understand what they see is not a
released product
Read through other notes in previous Nexus 4 EA image release emails, as
they are all relevant (cached:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53611676&postcount=433 )
HADK manual can be downloaded from (yes, you finally reached the
essential part of this announcement ) :
http://releases.sailfishos.org/sfa-ea/2014-07-18_SailfishOSHardwareAdaptationDevelopmentKit.pdf
We will all meet in the support channel called #sailfishos-porters on
irc.freenode.net and please use us (thp, alterego, Stskeeps, lbt,
sledges) to work together, report any bugs, graphical glitches or
missing functionality that you find, which are not included in the
release notes above. You can also find the hardware adaptation source
code at http://github.com/mer-hybris .
You are also welcome to participate in threads such as
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general about Nexus 4 and
Sailfish OS as well as for more general Sailfish OS topics at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/jolla-sailfish/general
Release Notes/Known Issues in HADK v1.0.1-EA1:
- Resulting HADK image for any device will not have Jolla Store support
(whereas as official Nexus 4 >=EA3 images by Jolla have). We are working
on Jolla Store integration into HADK (aiming for Nexus 4 as very first)
Will be fixed in the next release of HADK:
- HADK PDF has line-wrapping issues in pages 16, 19.
- PDF readers which can copy out-of-bound text: okular, Firefox PDF
viewer. Readers which cannot: evince, epdfview, mupdf
- PDF contains no table of contents
- Page 9: single quotes should be used to avoid early variable
evaluation for '[insert value of your choosing]' and
'$MER_ROOT/android/droid'
Kind regards,
Simonas Leleiva (sledges) on behalf the Sailfish OS for Everyone team
Engineer @ Jolla
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HADK 1.0.2 EA2
Official announcement from jolla:
Von:Simonas Leleiva [email protected]
An:Simonas Leleiva [email protected]
Betreff:The second Sailfish OS Hardware Adaptation Development Kit (HADK) Release (EA2)
Datum:July 21, 2014 14:43
Dear early adopter of Sailfish OS for Android devices. This is important
- read this whole mail through and follow all steps exactly as written.
IMPORTANT: If you choose to publish this mail through blogs, news sites,
forums, or others, quote it as-is and in complete form ONLY, or people's
devices may be at risk.
We are extremely happy to release the EA2 version of the Sailfish OS
Hardware Adaptation Development Kit (HADK), which describes how to port
Sailfish OS to existing devices based on CyanogenMod 10.1.
CM version 11.0 and AOSP versions will be supported eventually (and you
can help to make this happen sooner!)
Note that Sailfish OS images you will produce by following this
documentat are likely to be under Sailfish OS EULA.
We are excited to welcome you all to this adventurous porting journey.
We want to build a community around Sailfish OS for Android devices that
is based on mutual trust and respect for what we are all doing. Hence --
we ask that whenever you do screenshots, videos, forum or blog posts or
the like (and we're happy if you do!), you emphasise that this is an
work-in-progress effort and not a productised release. It is important
for Jolla that correct expectations are set for those who might be users
of the final product -- and that they understand what they see is not a
released product.
Read through other notes in previous Nexus 4 EA image release emails, as
they are all relevant (cached:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53611676&postcount=433 )
HADK manual can be downloaded from (yes, you finally reached the
essential part of this announcement ) :
http://releases.sailfishos.org/sfa-ea/2014-07-21_SailfishOSHardwareAdaptationDevelopmentKit.pdf
We will all meet in the support channel called #sailfishos-porters on
irc.freenode.net and please use us (thp, alterego, Stskeeps, lbt,
sledges) to work together, fix any bugs, graphical glitches or missing
functionality that you find.
You are also welcome to participate in the XDA threads:
Nexus 4:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...sailfish-os-adopters-released-t2667622/page51
Samsung Galaxy Nexus:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/development/project-sailfish-os-galaxy-nexus-t2648580
Generic Sailfish OS topics:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/jolla-sailfish/general
<port-your-device-xda-thread >
Release Notes/Known Issues in HADK v1.0.2-EA2:
- Table of contents
- Internal and external hyperlinks
- Out-of-bound text has now been mostly wrapped
- Ubuntu chroot updated to trusty, fixes gcc issues (4.4.1)
- mer-tools now points to rolling (chapter 6)
- Improved flow when porting to new device (2.3, still not perfect
- What to do in fixup-mountpoints? (14.3.2)
- Explained what to do when kernel config is not complying with
requirements (bottom 7.1.1, 14.3.5)
- Where to find CM's defconfig? (14.3.5)
- Local RPM repo creation fixed (7.1.2, 7.1.3)
- Possible github API rate limit workaround explained (5.3)
- Numerous bugfixes for smoother porting experience
Release Notes/Known Issues in HADK v1.0.1-EA1:
- Resulting HADK image for any device will not have Jolla Store support
(whereas as official Nexus 4 >=EA3 images by Jolla have). We are still
working on Jolla Store integration into HADK (aiming for Nexus 4 as very
first)
Kind regards,
Simonas Leleiva (sledges) on behalf the Sailfish OS for Everyone team
Engineer @ Jolla
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HADK 1.0.3
https://sailfishos.org/hadk
We will all meet in the support channel called #sailfishos-porters on
irc.freenode.net and please use us (thp, alterego, Stskeeps, lbt,
sledges) to work together, fix any bugs, graphical glitches or missing
functionality that you find.
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Have fun guys. In hope to get a full supported mako (and others) soon
continuing on piratepad (pun intended)
Some interesting porting news:
Get in touch with #sailfishos-porters on irc.freenode.net
So many news we can't keep up!! We moved to more dynamic place: http://piratepad.net/port-hot
2015-01-31
Packed FOSDEM room with lbt presenting the HADK method
Discount code for Jolla phone or toh-bundle revealed: FOSDEM2015
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https://twitter.com/leonanavi/status/561495082793435136
https://plus.google.com/113221121232287197533/posts/PYMoWWZiDnf
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2015-01-29
Revisited HADK is out: http://bit.ly/hadk-doc-1-0-3-0
2015-01-29
Nexus4 re-release with Bluetooth, on update10 inviting all GNU/Linux BT developers to make their accessories work!
https://twitter.com/_undressed_/status/560734328670670848
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...unity-port-t2969823/post58500045#post58500045
2015-01-29
Nexus5 1.1.1.27 (Update10) got the first OTA fix for graphics gliches: http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...h-os-alpha-t2841266/post58494353#post58494353
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2015-01-28
Nexus4 re-release with Bluetooth, inviting all GNU/Linux BT developers to make their accessories work!
https://twitter.com/sledgeSim/status/560408048981004288
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2015-01-06
Brilliant presentation at xda:devcon'14
Slides: http://bit.ly/port-slides
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2014-12-18
SailfishOS 1.1.0.39 just got hammerhead
https://twitter.com/sledgeSim/status/545707404277862400
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2014-12-11
a new community's build is up for mako with SailfishOS 1.1.0.39.
Thread on xda is located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/development/rom-sailfish-os-community-port-t2969823
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2014-10-29
souren is showing double-tap-to-wake proof of concept on Galaxy Nexus \o/
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2014-10-28
vakkov released update9 preview image for Galaxy Nexus (not super stable yet)
https://twitter.com/crazybulgarian/status/527128183397965825
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2014-09-22
Guhl ported to the first hardware keyboard phone HTC Desire Z! \o/
https://twitter.com/sledgeSim/status/514383201041924096
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2014-09-17
And here goes that HTC Desire HD video:
https://twitter.com/adampigg/status/512363960830398465
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2014-09-01
Piggz got it running on HTC Desire HD!
https://twitter.com/adampigg/status/506682514027859968
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2014-08-31
Linux Action Show Live teaser of Sailfish OS on Nexus 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Y8nxnRLIk#t=875
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2014-08-29
Porters joint effort got modem to respond on Samsung Galaxy S3 (non-LTE)!
download experimental image: http://forum.xda-developers.com/jolla-sailfish/general/jolla-sailfish-os-gs3-t2028133/post54874785
Then you'll have to enable modem yourself:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/jolla-sailfish/general/jolla-sailfish-os-gs3-t2028133/post55133534
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2014-08-28
Nexus 4 Early Adopters 4th release from Jolla!
Twitter:https://twitter.com/sledgeSim/status/505044136358338560
XDA Thread:http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/development/rom-sailfish-os-adopter-t2861054
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2014-08-25
Nexus 7 (2012) grouper alpha image release! Well done junnuvi
Twitter:https://twitter.com/junnuvi/status/504001299202199552
XDA Thread:http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/development/rom-sailfish-os-alpha-t2859817
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2014-08-12
We've got another one.Nexus flo. Big thx to vrutkovs.
Twitter:https://twitter.com/roignac/status/498852176593432576
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2014-08-11
After a little break we're back with some great news. First we're happy about the wide range of devices that are on the libhybris spreadsheet. You'll find them here:
wiki: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris
The next great thing is the beginning of multirom support. Nexus 5 is the first phone who got it. Big thx @tassadar, vgrade, alin & all others. Special Thanks to situ & vgrade and their helpers: alin, dmt, jusa, spiiroin, the HADK team, @sledges, Jolla sailors, the Mer Project, the Nemo Project and all the fine people over at #sailfishos-porters View the xda forum thread:
xda: http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...h-os-alpha-t2841266/post54682704#post54682704
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2014-08-04
Ho, ho, ho sailor's. No it's not christmas. Or maybe a little bit??? The community release thread for the galaxy nexus opened the door's and it's now available for you! So let's get in....
XDAThread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...st-3rd-sailfishos-galaxy-nexus-alpha-t2837096
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2014-08-01
Moar news from Jolla. You can meet them on the xda devcon to get in touch with the unlike others, got a flovour of their philosophy.... So take you're chance and we'll looking forward to meetin YOU
Dear early adopter of Sailfish OS for Android devices,
We are happy to announce Jolla's participation in XDAevcon 2014 in
Manchester, 26-28 September.
Would be delighted to meet you and share the porting experience
together. We will work on making a presentation and maybe even a stand.
https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/494846062444965888
Today is the last day for early bird admissions for discounted price,
don't miss it! http://xda-devcon.com/
Kind regards,
Simonas Leleiva (sledges) on behalf the Sailfish OS for Everyone team
Engineer @ Jolla
A public bug-tracker for all your porting problems! File under "Hybris-ing" \o/:
20:44 < sledges> PSA: all your bugs are belong a new home! https://bugs.nemomobile.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Hardware adaptation
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2014-07-30
Hi, hi. Another nexus device WIP. Nexus 7 Grouper. Credits to junnuvi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/junnuvi/status/494200983975911425
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2014-07-27
Hi, again. Galaxy nexus now up with data & sms. credits to crazybulgarian & beidl. Thx for this:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/crazybulgarian/status/493329430308454400
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2014-07-24
Hi, hi. Locusf shared a video with the community running GlacierUI homescreen (opensource alternative to Sailfish UI) on galaxy tab2 7.0. Great! Galaxy Note video will follow
Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FV96J5mg_M
For everyone who wants to be a part of it the sailfish wiki received an update with instructions to build you're own sailfish for hammerhad. So guys, let's go for it:
Wiki:https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Building_Sailfish_OS_for_Nexus_5
How we promised -> locusf shared running GlacierUI homescreen (opensource alternative to Sailfish UI) on galaxy note n7000 video!
Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBph2_tEm2Q
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2014-07-23
Hello sailors. Great news again. locusf (sailfish porter) was able to get an alternative 100% open-source ux called NemoMobile GlacierUI booting up on a samsung galaxy note. Hands up for the next device which will be able to install nemo / sailfish. thx locusf and all other guys in the sailfishos-porter channel:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/locusf/status/491911806756356096
And with sailfish ui:
The show must go on. What a great day. Another device is coming up to the community. Samsung Galaxy Tab2 7.0. Once again thx to locusf (and definetely to all other developers / techies etc. @: #sailfishos-porters):
Twitter:https://twitter.com/locusf/status/492010228737900544
Twitter:https://twitter.com/locusf/status/492039827693780992
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2014-07-21
Samsung Galaxy Nexus boots up to ui. Credits to crazybulgarian and beidl:
Twitter:https://twitter.com/crazybulgarian/status/491224435610124288
XDA project link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/development/project-sailfish-os-galaxy-nexus-t2648580
OMG finally its here!!!! iam not very good in ports or programming and something but if nobody ports this to the OnePlus One then iam, going craaaaaaazy. plese someone port it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A revised version of hadk is going to be released today
and here it is:
http://releases.sailfishos.org/sfa-ea/2014-07-21_SailfishOSHardwareAdaptationDevelopmentKit.pdf
carepack said:
and here it is:
http://releases.sailfishos.org/sfa-ea/2014-07-21_SailfishOSHardwareAdaptationDevelopmentKit.pdf
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And the release notes: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54298560&postcount=506 :highfive:
carepack said:
long prmised and finally arrived: hadk1.0
join irc.freenode.net
#sailfishos-porters
http://releases.sailfishos.org/sfa-ea/2014-07-18_SailfishOSHardwareAdaptationDevelopmentKit.pdf
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porting news updated. Guys be happy about whats ongoing since hadk was released. Have a great day!
This is really great, I've been waiting a long time for it to be available, documentation prior to that on libhybris and other components were pretty scarce before.
I'm really happy that Jolla is really contributing back to the community.
Samuelgames said:
This is really great, I've been waiting a long time for it to be available, documentation prior to that on libhybris and other components were pretty scarce before.
I'm really happy that Jolla is really contributing back to the community.
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for me the same. In my opinion the only modern mobile os (blackberry has done a great job too). Next phone will be a jolla. Contributing back and also it's great community
If I will have let's say an almost working port of sailfish on a phone generally, will I be able to have a working port of nemo mobile as well?? ;D
bill_klpd said:
If I will have let's say an almost working port of sailfish on a phone generally, will I be able to have a working port of nemo mobile as well?? ;D
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Sailfish in many ways is a layer on top of Nemo, so yes
From http://merproject.org/logs/#sailfishos/#sailfishos.2014-07-26.log.html
falc0n_ hello people! i am a bit stuck, can you guys help me? 19:07
falc0n_ i am looking for documentation on how to port sailfishos to other devices but couldn't find it anywhere 19:07
*** kimmoli_sailing_ has joined #sailfishos 19:08
Eztran falc0n_: try joining #sailfishos-porters , should be more help there. 19:10
Eztran The main documentation is the HADK, available at http://releases.sailfishos.org/sfa-ea/2014-07-18_SailfishOSHardwareAdaptationDevelopmentKit.pdf . 19:11
falc0n_ thank you mate, will try to see if i can do it for i9500 or not 19:11
falc0n_ wish me luck ^^ 19:11
*** kimmoli_sailing has quit IRC 19:11
Eztran SGS4? Best of luck indeed =)
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And from the #sailifishos-porters channel today
[04:59] <vakkov> dmt_ camera will not work for now on HADK devices. we will be soon starting a project for rewriting the camera stack
[05:00] <vakkov> so that every device can have camera support
[05:01] <vakkov> dmt so, if you can code you can join. Every pair of hands is welcome
[05:02] <zon> vakkov and beidl_, nice job on maguro, I'm looking forward to it
aironeous said:
...from the #sailifishos-porters channel today
[04:59] <vakkov> dmt_ camera will not work for now on HADK devices. we will be soon starting a project for rewriting the camera stack
[05:00] <vakkov> so that every device can have camera support
[05:01] <vakkov> dmt so, if you can code you can join. Every pair of hands is welcome
[05:02] <zon> vakkov and beidl_, nice job on maguro, I'm looking forward to it
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Great good news!!!!!
I wonder, would anyone (ever) work on enabling Barometer on Mako??? I mean, even Android snubs that sensor. I'm one of the very few I can find on any forum who cares about Barometer as I'm a bit of a weather geek.
RumoredNow said:
Great good news!!!!!
I wonder, would anyone (ever) work on enabling Barometer on Mako??? I mean, even Android snubs that sensor. I'm one of the very few I can find on any forum who cares about Barometer as I'm a bit of a weather geek.
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Reading on later in the logs it looks like they are going to take the camera work from Ubuntu phone and use it. But then later after that it is mentioned that someone named netchip is doing it directly using hal. Getting confused about who is doing what with which phone model.
Anyways just posted by Nokius https://twitter.com/Nokius/status/493465722446970880
aironeous said:
Reading on later in the logs it looks like they are going to take the camera work from Ubuntu phone and use it. But then later after that it is mentioned that someone named netchip is doing it directly using hal. Getting conufused about who is doing what with which phone model.
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Camera implementation strategy is not yet set in stone, so confusion is normal, please bear with us
Could anyone help with finding a barometer on board? I believe it would be just some linuxy manifestation of a sensor under sysfs, probably could be abstracted by libhybris like other sensors?
Thanks!
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Dear early adopter of Sailfish OS for Android devices,
We are happy to announce Jolla's participation in XDAevcon 2014 in
Manchester, 26-28 September.
Would be delighted to meet you and share the porting experience
together. We will work on making a presentation and maybe even a stand.
https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/494846062444965888
Today is the last day for early bird admissions for discounted price,
don't miss it! http://xda-devcon.com/
Kind regards,
Simonas Leleiva (sledges) on behalf the Sailfish OS for Everyone team
Engineer @ Jolla
I've been keeping up with the sailfishos-porters logs and the porting effort is growing fast. New guys and more devices joining.
Take a look again at https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris
There are more devices there and they will be making it a little bit more informational in the future.
you can add that http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2577661
Nexus4 with bluetooth release, see OP
Wooouuuhhh, what a day!!
We have a new mako build online. Check the xda thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/development/rom-sailfish-os-community-port-t2969823
And for those isn't this enough a revised version of the hadk document is out. Check OP.
going to sail. ahoi

Project Ara DevCon2 Time And Date

Hello, Thank you for your interest in the Project Ara Module Developers Conference.
Please join us for the global Livestream tomorrow on Wednesday, January 14th beginning at 8:00AM PST. We hope that you’ll join us to hear about the latest and greatest platform developments. View the agenda and join the Livestream here .
Feel free to get in on the conversation on Twitter using #AraDev. Thank you, The Project Ara team.
Source:- Project Ara Forum
Watching now. Looks great
I don't have time to watch it unfortunately. Can someone write in here if there are any interesting news? That would be awesome!
N0he said:
I don't have time to watch it unfortunately. Can someone write in here if there are any interesting news? That would be awesome!
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Go here http://projectaraforum.com/tag/project-ara-release-date-news-photos-and-updates.54/

How did I reached more then 55,000 downloads in less then two months.

It's was very hard and almost impossible if you don't have at least a small marketing budget. I am making this thread to help developers learn.
I want to stress that all my marketing was free. I didn't use paid advertisement.
Deciding what I am going to make
1) I decided to make a platform game that had very simple controls, anyone can understand how to play it without instructions.
2) I decided to use some cartoon images that, almost all I made myself. There is no some "Complicated graphics".
3) I made the game easy enough so that a gamer can play it without instructions.
Before Launch
1) After I finished the game I didn't release it to the google play store , that would equal a fail. I opened a small community in Google+ and collected some people that want to hear when I release the game to production.
2) I posted on facebook groups screenshots about my game that going to be published. I did it in 5-6 groups and I spend on it 3 days.
3) I went to some games forums and also a create a post and trying to make people waiting for this game to be published.
Launch
1) Launched my app on Google Play , posted on facebook and on Google+ that its finally arrived. And here comes the numbers:
After one week my app got more than 10,000 installs!
And now my game has 55,000 downloads at Google Play!
And I am still fighting to get more downloads. Hopefully I can reach higher but for last couple of days the downloads just decreasing Any questions ask away.
Game Link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.platform.game
Game Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIlMAMYM0LA
My community page in Google+:
https://plus.google.com/communities/104791047015811270026
Please tell me if this thread help you
Thank you for sharing your story. Can you provide any specifics such as revenue/detailed execution plan?
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My New Android Things Based Development Blog Series

After a LONG ... LONG ... time of working in the background of the android community (mainly on Sony AOSP stuff) I have started to put together some short blog style posts on medium that will be focused on developing applications and systems with the new Android Things platform. These posts will cover everything from starting your very first Android Things project all the way up to complex (and hopefully useful) connected devices. I have just published the 1st in this series (link below) and with any luck will have the 2nd one out by the end of next week.
1 . Android Things : Getting Started
2 . Android Things : Building Your 1st Connected App & Server (Hope this will be out before the end of next week .... title WIP)
Cheers !
Bumble-Bee

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