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Hi!

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Charles Boyd <csboyd07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the looks of it, hacking it together without official support is the
> best way for this to get done. I wonder why official support is taking so
> long. Are they trying to not step on mobile service providers toes too much?

As a developer I think that they simply have a lot lot of work to do
to develop a whole new platform in the way they envisioned it. So some
less important features are currently left out (Bluetooth file sharing
was one most obvious when I got my Android phone). They are also doing
really a great development environment. And all this takes time. So I
think it is just a question of roadmap (and security). Of course, this
is my guess.

> Will we be testing the port of OLSR and the GUI we build on Android devices
> in a live ad-hoc network?

I will. :-)

> Do you think this specific hardware would be able to run the firmware?

Exactly. Check how much flash does it has. If it has less then 4 MB
then it is a problem.

> I heard that Android was recently ported to run on the Intel Atom - so
> getting OLSR into Android just got a bit more interesting.

You opened a good question here. Android is much more than just
Android phones. We are now getting also tablets and different other
hardware. It would be interesting to see if we can also do something
to support all this. So something which would be hardware and
manufacturer (they add some specific things sometimes, like HTC)
independent. And then it is just one step to a general OLSR GUI. :-)


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