Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to be ported on Raspberry Pi

[jackalz]

The manufacturer of the Raspberry Pi, this miniature computer that costs only a few tens of dollars, announced a port of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to its platform that was underway.

It should be possible in the near future to install version 4.0 of Android on the Raspberry Pi, the famous miniature computer whose price is expected to be around $35. Its manufacturer has indeed announced that the port of this operating system was underway, with first results seem encouraging, since it is already possible to play videos and thus to exploit hardware acceleration.

To do this, however, the foundation has had to rework Raspberry in its own way for the kernel system and the associated binary VideoCore. Today, the main problem would be in support of AudioFlinger, the audio system to Android, which is still inoperative. It also aims to merge the Linux kernel modified for porting Android to the one, developing for its own distribution, Raspbian Linux.

[SpearMan]

People have already put several Linux distributions on this $25 or $35 Mini PCs. The firm also said that "This application uses a distinct nucleus and VideoCore binary image of the one available on GitHub, which is why we have kept quiet about it until now. We are investigating the feasibility of converging the two lines of code to produce a single common platform as soon as we can, when we expect to release the source so you can play with."