I got a g1 for Fathers’ Day (Thanks Hannah!) and I’ve been futzing with it a bit. I rooted it and set up a chroot debian system. It’s running an ssh server, openvpn and snmpd.<\/p>\n
There’s been a lot of talk about getting flash working on the device. They just announced yesterday the next phone<\/a> by HTC (the folks who make the hardware) which runs the Android OS. It sounds like there will be a ‘lite’ version of Adobe Flash available for that model. With all the natter about the new phone and flash, I thought it might be fun to get Mono running on the current model and see if I can get a Moonlight plugin shoe-horned in to the browser.<\/p>\n I got quite a bit of help from #android on freenode and #mono on gimpnet when I brought the topic up. At this point, I don’t think I can make it look native, but perhaps just getting the project off the ground is enough to start interest.<\/p>\n At a low level, it looks like the phone can manipulate the graphic display by blitting RGB565 pixmaps<\/a> to the fbdev. This might be enough to put together a quick cairo back-end. Since moonlight draws to cairo, something like this would be required in order to get things moving.<\/p>\n Now to see if I can compile mono + moonlight in such a way that it’s tiny enough to not take up the whole flash….<\/p>\n\n