Play with Android

Operations in Android

On AT91SAM9M10G45-EK and AT91SAM9M10-EKES board:

• BP3 joysticks maps UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, OK
• BP4 maps to MENU
• BP5 maps to BACK
  

On AT91SAM9X5EK board:

• K1 maps to BACK
• K2 maps to HOME
• K3 maps to MENU
• K4 maps to POWER
  

Input text

• In Android, if the current focus is on an input box, a soft keyboard will be shown. Then you can click the keyboard to input text.
  
  

Change Settings

• In Home Page Screen, press MENU button. A menu pops up: Select the “Settings”
  
  
  
  

Ethernet configure

• In Settings, you can configure the network interface to use DHCP or Static IP.
  
  
  
  

Multimedia

Play Music

• In Home Page Screen, select Music icon. Then Music Screen will pop up
  
  
  
  

View Photos

• In Home Page Screen, select Gallery icon. Then Gallery Screen will pop up if your inserted SD card has pictures
  
  
  
  

Play Videos

Please take the following steps as a reference to play the video clips in your SD card

• Power up the Android the system
  

• Click the Gallery icon, the gallery application will start to run
  

• Click the folder you want and choose the video file you want to play
  

Application Development In Android

Introduction

After you have the demo running, you can write applications for Android now. This section describes how to write Android application using the Android SDK.

Quick Start

Prepare Development Environment

Make sure that your workstation meets the software requirements. Install any additional software needed before downloading the Android SDK. In particular, you may need to install the JDK and Eclipse. More detail information, please reference http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html

System Requirements	Version
Supported Operating Systems	Windows XP (32-bit) Linux (tested on Ubuntu 10.04)
Java Development Kit	JDK 6 (JRE alone is not sufficient)
IDE	Eclipse IDE Eclipse 3.6 (Helios SR2 Classic) Eclipse JDT plugin
Android SDK	android-sdk_r16

Download and install

• JDK 6: Download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and install it to your workstation.
• Eclipse 3.6 (Helios SR2 Classic): Download from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
• Android SDK: Download from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.

Install the ADT Plugin for Eclipse

If you use Eclipse, setup a remote update site https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/. Install the Android Development Tools (ADT) Plugin, restart Eclipse, and set the "Android" preferences in Eclipse to point to the SDK install location.

For detailed instructions, see ADT Plugin for Eclipse.

Add Android platforms and other components to your SDK

Use the Android SDK and AVD Manager, included in the SDK starter package, to add one or more Android platforms (for example, Android 2.3.3 for API level 10) and other components to your SDK.

If you are not sure what to add, see Which components do I need?

To launch the Android SDK and AVD Manager:

• on Windows, execute SDK Manager.exe, at the root of the SDK directory.
• On Linux, execute the android in the <sdk>/tools/ folder.

For detailed instructions, see Adding SDK Components.

For a more detailed guide on installing and setting up the SDK, see http://developer.android.com/sdk.

Develop "Hello World" application on SAM9 EK board

Program the "Hello World" project in Eclipse

• Follow the Android official web here to write your first famous "Hello World" application.

Run "Hello World" application

• Successfully run Android demo on EK board.
• Make sure the adb function works well.
• Setup the "Hello World" application usb adb.
• On the main screen to start the "Hello World" application.

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See also: AndroidRootfs, Requirements, FlashPreBuildDemo, GettingStarted