In this post we have a brief introduction of Android Lock Task Mode. When the device is in this mode, it can be locked to a single app or a set of apps. Overview Android can run tasks in…
Android Pie 9.0.0 release for i.MX8MQ
We are glad to deliver the latest Android Pie 9.0 GA release for our i.MX8MQ Nitrogen8M platform. This image is an evaluation image which demonstrates the main functions of the board. Thanks to our Android software partner, Kynetics, for their help…
Android Pie 9.0.0 release for i.MX8M Mini
We are glad to deliver the latest Android Pie 9.0 GA release for our i.MX8M MINI Nitrogen8M Mini platform. This image is an evaluation image which demonstrates the main functions of the board. Thanks to our Android software partner, Kynetics, for…
Android Oreo 8.0.0 release for i.MX6 boards
We are glad to deliver the latest Android Oreo 8.0.0 GA release for most our i.MX6 platforms: BD-SL-i.MX6 (SABRE Lite) Nitrogen6x Nitrogen6_Max (Quad and QuadPlus) Nitrogen6_SOM Nitrogen6_SOMv2 Nitrogen6_Lite Nit6_SoloX Nitrogen6_VM For the impatient You can download the Android Oreo images from here: o800-nitrogen6x-20180907.zip for…
Nitrogen8M – Android and Qt Demo
The latest addition to our Nitrogen family, the Nitrogen8M, based on the NXP i.MX8MQ processor, will start shipping soon so it is time to show some demos of it. The Setup For this demo, we simply use: A Nitrogen8M platform…
Android Tools Windows Support for Nitrogen Platforms
Many topics in our Android Getting Started Guide rely on Android Tools such as ADB for application debugging or Fastboot for image flashing. Unfortunately, the guide assumed that the user was using a Linux distribution for all the commands involving Android…
Android Nougat 7.1.1 release for i.MX6 boards
We are glad to deliver the latest Android Nougat 7.1.1 GA release for most our i.MX platforms: BD-SL-i.MX6 (SABRE Lite) Nitrogen6x Nitrogen6_Max (Quad and QuadPlus) Nitrogen6_SOM Nitrogen6_SOMv2 Nitrogen6_Lite Nit6_SoloX Nitrogen6_VM We now recommend this release for new designs. For the impatient You can download the…
Getting Started Part 2: Writing SDCard Images
Writing SDCard Images All of our software releases link sdcard images which you’ll need to download and write to a sdcard. This has been said before on our blogs, but it it worth repeating here, the sdcard image is a…
Display configuration from U-Boot
Starting with Linux kernel v3.14.x and above, the way to setup the display on our platforms has changed. This blog post will detail how to set the proper display configuration from U-Boot. This applies to all operating systems that use…
Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 GA release
We are glad to deliver the latest Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 GA release for all our platforms: BD-SL-i.MX6 (SABRE Lite), Nitrogen6x, Nitrogen6_Max (Quad and QuadPlus), Nitrogen6_SOM, Nitrogen6_SOMv2, Nitrogen6_Lite, Nit6_SoloX and Nitrogen6_VM. This release went under the same testing as our previous releases which is why we now recommend this release for…
