Android hacked into hardware

HARDWARE hackers have been having fun attempting to put Google's Java-based Android software stack onto different hardware.

Linux Devices has been cruising around the hackers' various bogs and forum posts to see how they have been getting on.

It seems that while the software ships with an emulator based on Qemu, hardware might be a better target for application development.

Atmark-Techno's Armadillo-50, a development board based on Freescale's i.MX31L mobile applications processor, has been hacked to run the Android stack.

A software development outsourcing lab in Budapest known as "Eu.Edge" published an outline of booting Android on the Sharp SL-C760.

A Japanese user also managed to get the software running on a Sharp Zaurus C3000M and a Dutch Open Embedded Software Forum user named "cortez" posted links to an Android filesystem built to run alongside Poky Linux in a chrooted environment.

He installed Android on the SL-C3x00. µ