BeagleBone

[ranba790]

Hi
This board BeagleBoard.org - bone
Can run Android, is there a way using Basic4Android to access the GPIO or SPI ports on the board
Thanks

 

[rbsoft]

Sounds like an interesting alternative to the IOIO board.

Rolf

 

[tmdrake]

I have the same question, but with the PCduino board, I found they have ways of accessing the GPIO via a command line, but no java library yet i know of, as soon as I found one it will probably end up here.

The Beaglebone board with the 7" display looks cool.

 

[ikidd]

Very interested in this as well.

 

[ikidd]

So looking further down this rabbit hole, it looks like to implement GPIO under the 4.2.2 Jellybean image http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Android, one basically needs to write a Javascript (or C or C++) wrapper that implements Java Native Interface calls like http://electrofriends.com/articles/jni/jni-part1-java-native-interface/.

More info here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/gHR-1fvezjI/I3wQhyWhdp8J that involves downloading the source from the TI Android implementation to get files describing using SPI, I2C, GPIO and the JNI article linked above describes some of the process.

Now to figure out how to implement a wrapper for B4A. Someone want to get on that?

 

[whcir]

I am interested as well. would be willing to donate some $$$ for a library

 

[luigi.crocella]

Hello to everybody.
With the PCduino board, I found an example on
How to access GPIO with Android pcDuino: http://pcduino.com/forum/index.php?topic=3993.0

Have a library B4A for Android-pcduino would be very interesting for all developers who use pcduino (which is the card embedded with best features compared to yun, raspberry pi, beagle bone, etc.. and for that reason i think will soon become the most used in embedded system development).

We are already developing with it, uniting the world Android-app with linux-LAMP and arduino GPIO management...
After developing with arduino-yun we soon realized the severe limitations of memory capacity of the card and limited capacity on the linux side, so we decided to switch to pcduino to continue the interesting blend of the Linux-world with Arduino-like boards, and then developing Android apps with B4A for remote management of the hardware.

We are currently working to manage web server on the linux side, manage mysql databases using php scripts, interconnecting hardware using scipt in pyton or schetch in arduino-c... and using the web connectivity of the B4A for management hardware with app on mobile...(pcduino is the only card on which you can actually run a full and fast LAMP server and a full and fast JVM with the JDK-7...)

If someone takes care of this, knock once!