Alternatives to current development

[highlandsun]

Originally Posted by AmeiseMike

If you cannot duplicate a single basic interface per day, then you aren't very good at what you do. pthreads itself has already been ported to the Windows API in the past, as have several other APIs. To be fair, however, that is not an API, it is a single API procedure, though the other pthread functions would be trivial to implement as well.

It's trivial to port pthreads for the trivial cases. There are no guarantees that the Android userland is only a trivial threads consumer though. (I don't know if it uses more exotic features or not, haven't looked.) And yes, I know the POSIX APIs have been ported, I've done it myself at least twice. (E.g. OpenLDAP Source Repository - openldap.git/tree - libraries/libldap_r/ I'm also a MinGW/MSYS developer, and the guy who figured out how to implement signals in Win32 without all the crap the Cygwin guys do. Re: Ctrl-Break handler? - ReadList.com )

As per the 3-year concept... how long have you been trying to port Android onto the TP2, so far? A successful wrapping of the Android system around CE would allow any WinCE device to have 'droid, not just TP2.

That's not a fair question, I've only started working on the TP2 port since middle of March. I'm pretty sure I could port most of Android to WinCE in a few months, but I have no desire to use Windows, and the parts that are undocumented would still be missing and require reverse-engineering. In the meantime, I've fixed quite a few years-outstanding bugs in just a matter of weeks here.

arrrghhh - they don't need more programmers, they need people who can reverse engineer things. As per BT, GPS, Proximity, Ambient, etc, that would have been handled by the CE drivers. You'd need to implement the JNI wrappers in Android for them, though.

You'd need documentation for them, otherwise you'd still just be reverse-engineering, on an even more hostile environment. At least on the Android/Linux side of things, you have the majority of the source code available so you can see where the gaps are.