Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 2-13.
Android running on the Raspberry Pi
The
Android Pi wiki
offers a set of instructions for compiling CyanogenMod to run on
your Raspberry Pi. We have run them several times on multiple systems with varied
results—mostly of the negative sort. It's a learning exercise if this is unfamiliar territory
for you, and that is always a worthwhile venture. We offer this information largely as
fair warning to those who might get excited about the possibility but disappointed with
the result.
Note that if you do want to compile CyanogenMod yourself for the Raspberry Pi on
Fedora, you'll need a slightly different set of packages installed from the instructions
on the wiki:
$ su -c 'yum install make curl gnupg git bison unzip zip flex gperf gcc-c++
libstdc++-devel glibc-devel.i686 zlib-devel.i686 ncurses-devel.i686 libX11-
devel.i686 mesa-libGL-devel.i686 readline-devel.i686'
Other than that, the build instructions are the same. Ideally you will end up with usable
files you can flash to your SD card. Don't be too frustrated if it doesn't successfully
finish—you're certainly not alone, and this is a complicated problem. Take what you've
learned from the experience, and then if you still want to try Android on the Pi, simply
use the image offered on the wiki.
