Cubieboard - Building Openbox (Android ICS)

Cubieboard - Building Openbox (Android ICS)

Goes over building Openbox for the Cubieboard and applying patch to the source code that fixes the blank screen problem when using DVI monitors.

This uses the Android Ice Cream Sandwich version and has XBMC included in it. Building this in a virtual machine running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Resources:

1. Setting up an Android build environment: http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

2. OpenBox build instructions: https://github.com/cubieboard/manifests

3. Patched SystemServer.java file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9vka32mlqtld9x/SystemServer.java. (From https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/cubieboard/android/kudqRknOhxs see Silverio D.'s post.)

4. Flashing LiveSuit images to the board from windows 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeULfhdX1CY

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Introduction to CubieBoard

Cubieboard

Cubieboard (http://cubieboard.org/) is an Open ARM Mini PC.

• A10-Cubieboard
  A mini (10x6cm), hacker friendly, extendable and very low-cost while powerful ARM board with A10.
• A20-Cubieboard
  A mini (10x6cm), hacker friendly, extendable and very low-cost while powerfull ARM board with A20.
• A20-Cubietruck
  A mini, hacker friendly, extendable while powerfull ARM board with A20, 1000Mbps NIC, 4GB NAND Flash, VGA, HDMI, on board Wifi/Bt, S/PDIF, LiPo, RTC, 2x USB hosts, USB-OTG, ..
• Sunxi
  Sunxi represents the family of ARM SoC (System on Chip) designed for embedded systems, and made by Allwinner Tech. in Zhuhai (Guangdong, China). The most popular sunxi SoC model is the Allwinner A10 and the Allwinner A13. Their predecessor was an ARM9 named Boxchip F20 (sun3i) and their successors are A20 and Allwinner A31.