Puppy on an Android phone (galaxy s3)

[samedog]

This started as a puppy chroot'd over fedora chroot'd over android but it was lame to use another distro as "bridge", now i have a full working chroot'd filesystem with working X server (framebuffer).


So... since after like 8 months of (NOT)hard work my "puppy-on-android" project was a success, now i'm working on this:

- Android app to deploy a puppy SFS or IMG (main system + devx) chroot'd over android
- Xorg (and/or VNC) server scripts to set up the environment for puppy.
- init and "shutdown" scripts for puppy.
- A *GOOD* VNC server with support for different languages and layouts.
- A good GTK theme (phone screen size fucks with the resolution and DPI)
- Modded JWM for better use and navigation of the screen.
This will be a chrooted system running over the android kernel just because i don't feel like compiling the whole linux kernel, making it compatible with more than 1 phone and creating a custom ROM out of that.

Will be compiling and testing on:
- Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300)
- Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505)


Update: Touchscreen working, integrated keyboard working:

https://youtu.be/hv5_id3xOBc


Also here is a X remote display test video, with android ui and puppy running in coexistence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QnlDtGamSA

older videos (newer to older):

Framebuffered X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKuuNQCYMaA

Video of the "ghost" puppylinux on the android framebuffer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1fe4T2yDrE

PROOF OF CONCEPT VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHnskjimMgI

Sharing this just for giggles and amusement, maybe will try to make some "puppy-phone" in the future, who knows? since the galaxy S3 quad core processor allows for really nice compiling speeds i'm already doing some naughty arm stuffs.

[bark_bark_bark]

It would be awesome if this could be done with a kindle fire hd.

[samedog]

it scalated quickly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHnskjimMgI

[samedog]

Does anyone know how can i make xorg run in framebuffer with forced WxH resolution?

[samedog]

The framebuffer didn't worked as expected, gonna see if i can do something like a layer over the android gui or something.

[samedog]

Recompiling Xorg right now, maybe will be sharing some .pets i'm making on the run (so far: x11vnc and Python 2.7.8 ).
Planning on update the glibc and gcc, already working on some small gtk-apps to have better control of the system (onscreen keyboard, etc)

[samedog]

Funny thing: as far as i know no ARM chroot'd distro has made the touchscreen work on the framebuffer xorg, if i get it to work it will be a nice step for puppy.

[veronicathecow]

HI, I to would love to see puppy on an android phone. So nice to have a proper system on a small device. Keep up the good work.

[battleshooter]

So beyond my league, but very exciting. Hope you keep playing samedog as it's quite an unexplored realm.

[dog_dancer]

congratulations man, it is a Good work, Would be nice as android rival

[samedog]

Bump with new video:
https://youtu.be/hv5_id3xOBc

[Atle]

Impressiv. Excellent. Amazing.

Me want.

[Deacon]

Bump with new video:
https://youtu.be/hv5_id3xOBc

How did you do this exactly? And are you creating a modified pup image? Will this work on the average Android tablet? I have a cheap Kindle Fire tab which I will probably overwrite with Cyanogenmod soon