I bought a 64bit Pine64 https://www.pine64.com/ through their Kickstarter campaign some time ago to determine its suitability for the B4X development platform and it finally arrived. I thought I would share my initial experiences with the 64 bit card. The one that I bought has 2 gb RAM which is important as the 512mb RAM units aren't an option when running Android and Linux platforms. I also purchased the Bluetooth/Wireless module.
I heard that running Android on the Raspberry PI/2 was very sluggish. I installed Pine64's Android 5.1.1 image and found the boot and operational speed very good. Not quite a fast as my native android devices but very, very acceptable. Installed my apks that I developed with B4A and they worked without a problem. Display speeds are very good as some of my B4A developed software uses graphics quite heavily.
Next, I installed Pine64 Ubuntu 16.04. I had to install java runtime manually as it isn't installed out of the box so to speak but installation was painless. Installed B4J-bridge, connected the Pine64 using B4J bridge, and ran a few programs in debug mode without any problems.
My experiences to date but so far so good. BTW: I plugged a 1.5tb USB drive and of course Ubuntu mounted it automatically and without the need of a separate power supply as PIs require!
I heard that running Android on the Raspberry PI/2 was very sluggish. I installed Pine64's Android 5.1.1 image and found the boot and operational speed very good. Not quite a fast as my native android devices but very, very acceptable. Installed my apks that I developed with B4A and they worked without a problem. Display speeds are very good as some of my B4A developed software uses graphics quite heavily.
Next, I installed Pine64 Ubuntu 16.04. I had to install java runtime manually as it isn't installed out of the box so to speak but installation was painless. Installed B4J-bridge, connected the Pine64 using B4J bridge, and ran a few programs in debug mode without any problems.
My experiences to date but so far so good. BTW: I plugged a 1.5tb USB drive and of course Ubuntu mounted it automatically and without the need of a separate power supply as PIs require!
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