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An Easy Way to Update Android Kernel Related Files Without Getting the sdcard Out

Do you feel it’s difficult or complicated to update kernel related files for a running Android device? Do you feel that it’s boring to get the sdcard out when you just want to update some kernel files when the Android … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period March 14 to March 20.

Hello Linaro fans. How is your board coping with the load when run in different use cases? Would you like to see graphs of the resource usage? This is entirely possible with the ARM DS-5 Eclipse plugin. Android developers can … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period March 7 to March 13.

Hello Linaro fans. Something big is happening in Linaro. And something LITTLE too. Behind the cute moniker “big.LITTLE” hides a chip architecture that may improve the user experience of mobile devices dramatically. Up to now the device manufacturers have had … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Feb. 17 to Feb. 23

Hello Linaro fans. The 12.02 cycle contained both Linaro Connect and The two Linux Foundation conferences ABS and ELC. All three events were held in the same hotel in Redwood City just south of San Francisco. The Connect conference is … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Feb. 02 to Feb. 16

Wow! Talk about having everything at the same place! Redwood City has for the past two weeks harbored a unique concentration of Linux and Android Professionals (I almost wrote “geeks” ) At Connect we planned the next quarter of Linaro work while on … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Jan. 18 to Jan. 25

Hello again. The 12.01 Release is out. The full story can be found here. The Android team is now working closely with the Landing teams to get hardware acceleration going on all fronts. Here is a summary of this weeks … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Jan. 11 to Jan. 18

Hello again. Next week is 12.01 Release Week and the Android Team is hard at work with their blueprints. The 4.6 toolchain has been released, and there are pre-releases of Android ICS already working on most boards. The bug list … Continue reading

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FXI’s Cotton Candy at CES Leverages Open Source Tools from Linaro for Rapid Development

FXI‘s Cotton Candy at CES is proof of how Linaro can help a system vendor rapidly develop a product that is running the latest Android ICS and Ubuntu. FXI said in it’s announcement it leveraged the Linaro for ARM open software and … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 28 to Jan. 03

Hello! This week’s excitement is that we are moving all Android integration and daily builds to Android version 4.0.3. This is going very well. We have found that there are far too many old bug reports that are no longer … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 21 to Dec. 27

Season’s Greetings from Linaro! Well, for some it’s working season This week has been slow in the western hemisphere, but at Linaro there are always a crew at work. Here’s what has been acomplished last week: Key Points for wider … Continue reading

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