Re: [Csnd] Re: [Cs-dev] Android Build and Examples Committed to
Date | 2012-03-03 01:42 |
From | Roger Kelly |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [Cs-dev] Android Build and Examples Committed to |
I purchased an Asus prime recently. It is a quad core Tegra processor. It was about 500 US. Probably the most powerful to date. Can't wait to run Csound. Ran it today on my Htc phone. Worked and sounded great! Much thanks to Victor and Steven. Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad "Dr. Richard Boulanger" <rboulanger@berklee.edu> wrote: Dear Victor and Steven, This is wonderful news. Congratulations and thanks for all your incredible work on this. Congratulations also on your paper for the Linux Audio Developer's Conference on this subject. I am looking forward to reading it and possibly meeting up with you in California that weekend. (I will be performing at UC Santa Barbara with Curtis Roads on April 12, but will be rehearsing and recording in San Jose for five days prior to the 12th. If you, Victor, and Joachim arrive early, I could have you down to the Open Path Recording studio and/or meet you up at Stanford. Thomas Hass will be with me and Takahiko Tsuchiya - from the Hanover Conference will be with me.) My questions, for you and the developers.... Which is the best Android device to purchase that will allow Csounders to take advantage of this work? Which is the most powerful? Which is the most affordable? -dB ___________________________________ Dr. Richard Boulanger, Ph.D. Professor of Electronic Production and Design Professional Writing and Music Technology Division Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215-3693 617-747-2485 (office) 774-488-9166 (cell) ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ On Mar 2, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Steven Yi wrote:
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Date | 2012-03-03 14:33 |
From | luis jure |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [Cs-dev] Android Build and Examples Committed to |
on 2012-03-02 at 19:42 Roger Kelly wrote: >I purchased an Asus prime recently. cool... and what about handheld devices? i've never been too enthusiastic about android, but i'm about to surrender, now that maemo is dead, and meego isn't going anywhere. i read very good reviews about the samsung galaxy S2, although i think it's too expensive (it cost almost as much of what i paid for a fully customized HP dm1z). any suggestions? |
Date | 2012-03-03 15:12 |
From | Steven Yi |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [Cs-dev] Android Build and Examples Committed to |
For phone, I have a Google Nexus One. It's underpowered by today's standards and doesn't have much RAM unfortunately. I'm still able to run the examples, though I don't think it'd be able to do too, too much in terms of polyphony or just overall number crunching. I have a Kindle Fire; it runs fine, not the fastest, but I'll likely do blue development with it. Unfortunately though, microphone in just doesn't seem to work on it. For tablets, we're sort of at a transition point with the next wave of tablets likely to use Tegra 3, which is a quad-core chip. The Asus Prime was the first of that wave, but new ones are coming very soon. The Samsung tablets are nice; most are dual-core, but since multi-core isn't really taken advantage of in Csound, the choice to purchase a quad-core or dual-core probably won't be a factor at the moment. It may be a factor though for work over the next year, as I'm sure we'll get to working more on multi-core in Csound. The Samsung tablets are pretty popular, so they're worth supporting. If I'm thinking in terms of a software maker, I'd want to support what is popular (hence, one factor in why I bought a Kindle Fire). If I'm thinking just in terms of personal use, I'd get the fastest thing possible. :P Samsung or Asus would be fine choices I think. For phones, I can't comment myself but I'd probably get a Google Nexus (the latest), but Nexus S II would be nice too I think. Hope that helps! steven On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:33 PM, luis jure |
Date | 2012-03-04 11:05 |
From | luis jure |
Subject | [Csnd] android and meego (derived thread) |
on 2012-03-03 at 12:33 luis jure wrote: > and meego isn't going anywhere. may be i spoke too soon? i've just seen that the new nokia n9 is based on meego (although it has some other disadvantages compared to the samsung galaxy). has anyone experience with this OS? any ideas how easy/difficult it is to cross-compile or port from plain linux to meego? victor and steven discussed the latency problems with android. could meego be better in that sense? best, lj |
Date | 2012-03-04 11:29 |
From | Andres Cabrera |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] android and meego (derived thread) |
Hi Luis, I've got an N950 (the developer version of the N9), and I like it a lot. I've never used Android or iOS, so I can't compare, but Meego is very good. Unfortunately the N9 will be Nokia's last Meego phone, so it is in a way dead. But there are many rumours that future feature phones Nokia will make will be Linux based, and likely to be derived from Meego. But it's mostly speculation and rumours so far. Meego is a fairly standard Linux system at its base, and it uses apt-get and debian packages, so porting things is pretty straight forward. Your main issue will be dependencies, and their compatibility with ARM. Cheers, Andres On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:05 AM, luis jure |
Date | 2012-03-05 12:29 |
From | luis jure |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] android and meego (derived thread) |
thank you andrés for the report! it's a real pity that nokia is dropping meego, i hope they'll keep some sort of linux-based OS on their devices. in fact, i didn't even expect them to release the N9 on meego. let's see what the future brings... anyway, steven is of course right when he says that the best move is to support platforms that are popular... within acceptable limits of openness, i guess. i'm not crazy about android, but it's incomparably better than anything apple. or microsoft. so i think it's a relatively good thing that it's growing so much, compared to the alternatives... best! lj |