I've been curious if anybody was considering a port of Ice Cream Sandwich to the Efika MX. The newer version is built for both tablets and phones along with it being open sourced whereas Honeycomb was not. Having used the Asus Transformer with the laptop dock, the newer versions of Android seems to work pretty well with a trackpad.

Hi.

It already has been ported. We're working on getting a demo image out.

For now, there is a video on YouTube showing ICS on the efikamx running at 720p:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNlnlnAwwVU

Keep in mind, the interface in that video is using the software renderer only. Hardware acceleration with GLES is currently in progress.


Johan.

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Johan Dams, Genesi USA Inc.
Director, Software Engineering

Yep, I have a blog... PurpleAlienPlanet

Well that's good to hear! I hadn't realized anybody was working on it. Definitely planning on trying that as soon as it's available. Thanks for letting me know.

Will you have a demo image of this available for download? Like this one was: http://www.powerdeveloper.org/platforms/efikamx/android

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The link isn't posted yet, but here is a little teaser video of what we have done so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzeraONFIM

Work continues, but we will have the demo image publicly available soon. This is entirely a performance demo and certain things are known to not work. Blog post about it soon as well.

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Steev Klimaszewski, Genesi USA Inc.
Senior Software Engineer

I just tried out the Android 4.0 Tech Demo from 2011-12-06.
(It runs off the SD Card, write it to your SD card like you would a normal ubuntu release.)

Summary: VERY ALPHA

My setup:
* Efika MX SMarttop T03
* Class 10 16GB SDHC Card
* Samsung 2333HD 23" 1080p HDTV/Monitor combo over HDMI (it behaves like a TV over HDMI, it can do stereo audio over it))
* Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110 (keyboard/mouse on one USB receiver)

What didn't work:
* My cordless desktop, the receiver was powered but the keyboard/mouse didn't work
**** I had to plugin a regular wired USB keyboard & regular wired USB mouse
* No audio over either HDMI or internal speaker; didn't test analog jack
* Wi-fi (never lets you enable it in settings)
* 10/100 LAN (although support isn't part of vanilla AOSP)
* Bluetooth (never lets you enable it in settings)
* System freezes when the screen is going to go into standby after 1 minute of idle (mouse may or may not work)
**** Fix temporarily by rebooting w/ ctrl + alt + delete)
**** Fix permanently by going to settings > developer settings > keep screen on
* Power LED stays solid blue all the time
* At the lock screen it says "connect your charger"
* Switching wallpapers is all messed up
* It thinks it only has ~240 MB of internal storage & no SD storage, even though I saw that the uncompressed .img is 2GB
* If you use the dialer to dial a number, the dialer crashes (which is acceptable), but then it puts your screen orientation in portrait & it gets stuck (so everything is flipped on its side)
**** Fix by rebooting w/ ctrl + alt + delete
* It was built by the build machine "lumen", what a stupid name!
* And the developer who built it, "steev", spelled his name wrong!

That said, this is still awesome because:
* Everything loads very quickly (like the old android 2.x tech demo)
* Hardware accelerated graphics are working, not perfectly but rather well
* The background animation is fairly impressive
* This HDTV/monitor worked over HDMI whereas it does not under Ubuntu (it does under Debian armhf though; a genesi dev said it's probably because debian uses the framebuffer)

In all honesty, I'm more excited over my efika mx than ever before! Regardless of one's opinion on GNU/Linux vs Android, this is SO MUCH FASTER.

UPDATE: I did not notice markos's post when I wrote this.

Hi, thank you for sharing your experiences.
Actually, it is not a mistake, it is a choice. Creative spelling of online nicknames is a rather common phenomenon.

Hi Michael, and others,

Please read this thread:

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/vi ... hp?p=15541

It clearly states the pre-alpha nature of the Android image. It is a tech demo with one purpose only: show the work we're doing on ICS and the progress we're making with the GL back-end.

Regarding the build system's name, in this case we're sticking to names of characters from the TV series Dexter - a favorite among us :-)
We use names of herbs for others and personally all my systems use names from Norse mythology.
In other words, use whatever names you want, whatever works for you, to remember individual systems. When running lots of servers, it makes it much easier.


Johan.

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Johan Dams, Genesi USA Inc.
Director, Software Engineering

Yep, I have a blog... PurpleAlienPlanet

Johan, I made the mistake of not finding & reading your post 1st. Steev linked me to the image last night and asked me to test it. Your post did answer much of what I said.

Also, please note that I was being sarcastic about naming. I do appreciate the art of server naming.