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| author | David Walter Seikel | 2014-09-22 13:27:42 +1000 |
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| committer | David Walter Seikel | 2014-09-22 13:27:42 +1000 |
| commit | 55e3a03598f6fab37e18fad19296669be6886568 (patch) | |
| tree | a4c9bc524fe4922f7373dbbe254d57dec4ab5c5e | |
| parent | More UI, and get most of the UI working. (diff) | |
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Update README.
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| 1 | This is an Android installer for Rob Landley's toybox. Toybox combines | 1 | This is an Android installer for Rob Landley's toybox. |
| 2 | common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed | ||
| 3 | executable that's simple, small, fast, reasonably standards-compliant, | ||
| 4 | and powerful enough to turn Android into a development environment. | ||
| 5 | 2 | ||
| 6 | http://landley.net/code/toybox/ | 3 | http://landley.net/code/toybox/ |
| 7 | 4 | ||
| @@ -17,19 +14,12 @@ My initial design thoughts are to download a recent binary of toybox | |||
| 17 | from Rob's web site that is suitable for what ever CPU we are running | 14 | from Rob's web site that is suitable for what ever CPU we are running |
| 18 | on. | 15 | on. |
| 19 | 16 | ||
| 20 | http://landley.net/code/toybox/downloads/binaries/ | ||
| 21 | |||
| 22 | java.lang.System.getProperty("os.arch"); returns things like "armv7l". | ||
| 23 | Currently the latests toybox binaries download only provides ARM 4, 5, | ||
| 24 | and 6 versions. So would need some massaging to get the closest match. | ||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | Then provide a list of the folders in the current PATH, so the user can | 17 | Then provide a list of the folders in the current PATH, so the user can |
| 27 | select where to install it. Likely root will be needed, though I think | 18 | select where to install it. Likely root will be needed, though I think |
| 28 | there are non root ways of running things like toybox. | 19 | there are non root ways of running things like toybox. |
| 29 | 20 | ||
| 30 | A fall back option is to use some sort of directory picker. Might just | 21 | A fall back option is to use some sort of directory picker. Might just |
| 31 | provide that anyway, for extra flexibility. One more option might be to | 22 | provide that anyway, for extra flexibility. |
| 32 | allow a choice of versions to install. | ||
| 33 | 23 | ||
| 34 | 24 | ||
| 35 | About the logo. | 25 | About the logo. |
| @@ -45,11 +35,11 @@ image for the toybox logo. So the Placitas_Green_pillow.jpg image, and | |||
| 45 | all derivations of it, are used with permission from Bruce Gardner. | 35 | all derivations of it, are used with permission from Bruce Gardner. |
| 46 | Thank you Bruce. | 36 | Thank you Bruce. |
| 47 | 37 | ||
| 48 | Original image size is 176x176, Android requires MDPI 48x48, HDPI 72x72, | 38 | Original size is 176x176, Android requires MDPI 48x48, HDPI 72x72, XHDPI |
| 49 | XHDPI 96x96, XXHDPI 144x144, XXXHDPI 192x192, and Google Play logo at | 39 | 96x96, XXHDPI 144x144, XXXHDPI 192x192, and Google Play logo at 512x512. |
| 50 | 512x512. LDPI is also supported, but that gets the HDPI scaled down to | 40 | LDPI is also supported, but that gets the HDPI scaled down to 36x36 |
| 51 | 36x36 automatically. Actually Android in general takes what it has and | 41 | automatically. Actually Android in general takes what it has and tries |
| 52 | tries to scale it as best it can. Cropping it to 144 works OK. | 42 | to scale it as best it can. Cropping it to 144 works OK. |
| 53 | 43 | ||
| 54 | 44 | ||
| 55 | Authors. | 45 | Authors. |