We recently had a need for a quick RAM-disk image and went to the tool we’ve been using for years: Buildroot and took some notes along the way. With less than 10…
One of the hidden gems produced by Google as a part of the Android project is the inappropriately named Fastboot tool. In this article, we’ll describe Fastboot as implemented for our Nitrogen-E…
This is a question we’re often asked, and we generally respond through e-mail. Since we’re getting the question a lot lately from new customers, a blog post is in order. This seems…
In a previous post, we walked through the process of building Qt using the LTIB tool, but we were a bit cavalier about the steps involved. Since that time, we’ve been shipping…
Here’s another favorite for fixed-point Android users. How do we skip the home screen and go directly into our own custom application on system start? Once again, this is an easy change…
The default screen orientation for the Android-ready Nitrogen and Nitrogen53 is landscape. That’s fine for most people, but say you want it in portrait. Or upside down, or whatever. That’s a problem,…
Now that we’ve covered the internals, we can talk a little about how the surface application should look. As a reference we’ll use the AOSP’s own default Camera app; you can find…
When developing device drivers and porting code to new hardware, programmers will often operate with source code in one hand and data sheet in the other, and it’s often necessary to look…
As a part of our web-site redesign, we’ve moved our git repositories to GitHub. You can see all of the repositories using this link: https://github.com/boundarydevices The most active at the moment are:…