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Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 28 Dec 2011, 11:04
by HaWe
hi,
I'm about to purchase a Samsung S i9000 Android mobile phone -
can I connect it (and how?) to one of these MS interfaces?
http://www.mindsensors.com/index.php?mo ... tion=73:73

Re: Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 28 Dec 2011, 11:41
by mightor
It will only work if you can upgrade it to Android 2.3.4 (or higher). This is required to be able to use the Google ADK. I know Mindsensors is also working on an alternative interface that will allow older versions of Android to work with it, but I don't have much detail on that.
For more info on the Google ADK, take a look here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html

Perhaps you can flash it with Cyanogen Mod or another ROM.

- Xander

Re: Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 28 Dec 2011, 11:42
by mightor
Btw, you do realise that programming Android requires JAVA :shock:

- Xander

Re: Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 28 Dec 2011, 11:46
by HaWe
I think it has 2.3.5 currently
but Java is an absurdity...
I was hoping I could use C/C++

edit:
and how will it be connected to the Mindstorms motor/sensor-interface? (and which?)

Re: Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 28 Dec 2011, 12:49
by mightor
C++ on Android? I don't think so, unless you want to program that thing natively. If you think NXOS or nxtOSEK is hard, you ain't seen nothing yet.
You could program the ADK board with the Arduino environment or with AVRStudio in C or C++ without the use of the phone.

I think you need to do some research into programming for Android first. You can start here: [LINK].

- Xander

Re: Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 28 Dec 2011, 12:58
by HaWe
...you ain't seen nothing yet
b-b-b-baby...I w-was af-f-f-raid of that.^^

b-b-b-but now I finally found the missing information about the ADK board
http://www.openelectrons.com/index.php? ... &PAGE_id=6


Re: Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 06:24
by timpattinson
mightor wrote:C++ on Android?
http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html
I think it still requires a bit of Java to act as "glue"

Re: Samsung S i9000 + Mindsensors

Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 06:56
by mightor
Yeah, it's not a whole lot different from the "ARMlets" concept that Palm used for their PalmOS 5 devices. It's only to speed certain things up and they're loaded much like .dll/.so's

- Xander