IMX8 Android Platform

DART-MX8M-MINI Android Pie

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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.MX8 System On Module products.

Release version: P9.0.0_r01

General

General

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

Programming

• Hello World 'APK' application
• Adb and Fastboot
• Debugging with Android Studio
• Google Play Store

Support

• Variscite Customer Portal
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Build

Build Android, Linux and U-Boot

• Release Notes
• Setting a Development Environment
• Build Android from source code
• Android common build errors
• Customizing the Linux kernel
• Android Flashing

How-to

Test and use an Interface

• Audio
• Bluetooth
• Backlight
• Camera
• Can Bus
• CPU freq. and number of cores
• Ethernet
• GPIO

• I2C
• RTC
• SPI
• Suspend
• UART
• USB Host
• USB OTG
• WiFi

Note:

• In any "How-to" steps where it mentions manual steps to be executed. Please use serial port or adb shell to execute those commands.
• If certain interface require changes in kernel code, refer to interface specific device tree changes above. Rebuild the kernel build new boot image, flash new boot image and test desired interface.

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