VAR-SOM-MX6 Android Platform

VAR-SOM-MX6 Android Nougat

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Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In addition, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Wear OS for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used on game consoles, digital cameras, PCs and other electronics. Freescale/NXP i.MX is part of OHA the Android Project providing a release based on the Android Project and Google and Linux Foundation sources. Variscite extends this release to support its i.MX6 System On Module products: VAR-SOM-MX6, VAR-SOM-SOLO/DUAL and DART-MX6 (all of which are under the VAR-SOM-MX6 category of this Wiki).

Release version: N7.1.1

General

General

• First Time? Start Here <---
• Using the recovery SD card

Programming

• Hello World 'APK' application
• Debugging with Android Studio
• Fast Boot

Support

• Variscite Customer Portal
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• Variscite Support Forum

Build

Build Android, Linux and U-Boot

• Release Notes
• Setting a Development Environment
• Build Android from source code
• Android common build errors
• Customizing U-Boot
• Customizing the Linux kernel
• Toolchain installation for out of Android builds
• Build U-Boot from source code
• Build the Linux kernel from source code
• Burning Android binaries to flash/eMMC via SD card
• Burning Android binaries to flash/eMMC via Fastboot
• Adding Android APK to Android build
• Replace the Linux logo
• Secure Boot / High Assurance Boot (HAB)
• SWUpdate Guide
• Booting from USB using the imx_usb_loader utility

How-to

Test and use an Interface

• Audio record/play
• Backlight
• Bluetooth
• Bluetooth Low Energy
• Bluetooth file transfer
• Bluetooth A2DP
• Camera
• CAN bus
• CPU freq. and number of cores
• Digital Mic
• Dual Displays: LVDS & HDMI
• Ethernet
• Ethernet MAC address
• External UART
• GPIO

• HDMI
• I2C
• LVDS
• Parallel RGB Display on DART-MX6
• PCIE
• RTC
• SATA
• SPI
• Static IP Address
• Suspend
• USB Host
• USB OTG
• Video streaming - Playback/Capture
• Wireless LAN
• WiFi using connman

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