[Mobile-sig] Experiments with Dalvik

David Boddie david at boddie.org.uk
Thu May 19 17:47:48 EDT 2016


On 2016-05-19 03:15, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:

> If you’re coming to PyCon US, I’ll be speaking about this work. If
> you’re not… well.. the videos will be online shortly after, I
> suppose :-)

I'll be sure to check those out. :-)

> My current test setup is a Nexus 5 I inherited from my father-in-law,
> plus an older Kogan Agora phone:
> 
> https://www.kogan.com/au/kogan/shop/phones/android/
> 
> (That’s the Australian store;
> The Kogan phones are the usual “cheap manufacture and rebrand”
> devices - the same device is sold by a couple of other companies in
> Australia under different brand names. For the price, they’re pretty
> good as test devices. They don’t make a big deal about getting
> access to the boot loader and system software, but I know some people
> at Kogan, and they’re generally sympathetic to FOSS (they’re a
> well known Django shop); I’ll give them a poke and see what they say
> about releasing technical details.

That would be good move in general, I think. I'd never heard of Kogan
and the site keeps wanting me to go to the /au/ pages, so I wonder if
they still have a presence outside Australia. It's always interesting
to see what there is on offer, anyway.

David


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