Using Android-Microsoft operating systems with touchscreens
Posted: Sat 04 Feb 2012, 20:02
Barry mentioned in his blog, the ANDROID operating system.
Many have started to comment, but I thought the subject could be "incited" better here in the General Forum as so many of us "are/have been/will be" using SMART-Phones with the Android OS.
Further, I was also thinking that some members here may provide their insights that would help the community overall in understanding ANDROID and how Puppiers could help steer Puppy LInux into this newer field of User Use on a device with a touch screen. Several months ago, I'm not sure if I reported that I did test Puppy-LIghtHouse64 on an HP Touchsmart system and it worked as perfectly. as Microsoft in its touchscreen management of the desktop and the desktop apps.
Last year, I also tested Android on a tablet PC where it worked as well. These were limited tests on feasibility....not for ongoing day-to-day use.
TOUCHSCREENS are the "wave" of our future. Reports are already afoot and products are already on your doorsteps with "touch" and "gesture" deployed. Most recently, new technology is re-emerging on the addition of Voice to this mix.
Android is a OS that has touch screen as its expected primary UI.
It is the wave of our OS future as this is where the world (Apple/Microsoft,Sony, Samsung, Nokia) have bee heading for several years.
Android has a discrete architecture and is Open source, per se. Even though it has touch-screen as its expected platform, it will run on Intel platforms which have Touchscreen as a display.Further it will also run on several different vendor CPU platforms, thus, because of this, applications are portable. So, it can be used on a Touchscreen PC such as HP's Touchsmart, or on a XPAD device or on many Smartphones (unlocked,of course). But, the OS is tened to be full featured for 5 different antenna's 2G/3G/4G/WiFi/Bluetooth while my test 2 years ago on an Intel platform found that it sued the MB's LAN card as well.
This is an OS of beauty from Google.
HP's WebOS that was purchased when they bought Palm was suppose to extend the Linux development. Cut, they abandoned the UI's development leaving the OS development to Apple and Google to duke it out. Those other than Apple have adopted Android as their base for their screen device.
Many of us "old timers" have a ways to go to get on-board with this approach in Linux. It will require us to look at development from user perspective instead of a "size" to determine if an OS is good of bad.
Please feel free to add ANY ideas and thoughts that can help overall understand of how this community can enhance, contribute or advance in this arena.
Here to help
Many have started to comment, but I thought the subject could be "incited" better here in the General Forum as so many of us "are/have been/will be" using SMART-Phones with the Android OS.
Further, I was also thinking that some members here may provide their insights that would help the community overall in understanding ANDROID and how Puppiers could help steer Puppy LInux into this newer field of User Use on a device with a touch screen. Several months ago, I'm not sure if I reported that I did test Puppy-LIghtHouse64 on an HP Touchsmart system and it worked as perfectly. as Microsoft in its touchscreen management of the desktop and the desktop apps.
Last year, I also tested Android on a tablet PC where it worked as well. These were limited tests on feasibility....not for ongoing day-to-day use.
TOUCHSCREENS are the "wave" of our future. Reports are already afoot and products are already on your doorsteps with "touch" and "gesture" deployed. Most recently, new technology is re-emerging on the addition of Voice to this mix.
Android is a OS that has touch screen as its expected primary UI.
It is the wave of our OS future as this is where the world (Apple/Microsoft,Sony, Samsung, Nokia) have bee heading for several years.
Android has a discrete architecture and is Open source, per se. Even though it has touch-screen as its expected platform, it will run on Intel platforms which have Touchscreen as a display.Further it will also run on several different vendor CPU platforms, thus, because of this, applications are portable. So, it can be used on a Touchscreen PC such as HP's Touchsmart, or on a XPAD device or on many Smartphones (unlocked,of course). But, the OS is tened to be full featured for 5 different antenna's 2G/3G/4G/WiFi/Bluetooth while my test 2 years ago on an Intel platform found that it sued the MB's LAN card as well.
This is an OS of beauty from Google.
HP's WebOS that was purchased when they bought Palm was suppose to extend the Linux development. Cut, they abandoned the UI's development leaving the OS development to Apple and Google to duke it out. Those other than Apple have adopted Android as their base for their screen device.
Many of us "old timers" have a ways to go to get on-board with this approach in Linux. It will require us to look at development from user perspective instead of a "size" to determine if an OS is good of bad.
Please feel free to add ANY ideas and thoughts that can help overall understand of how this community can enhance, contribute or advance in this arena.
Here to help