5.7" Mirasol Android Device

At 22:26 02 March 2012, Karl Kunz wrote:
This device is also sold in China under the name Hanvon C18
and elsewhere
in Asia as Bambook, KYOBO eReader, as well as Koobe Jin
Yong reader. You
can load Android apps in it but my question would be can you
feed GPS into
it?

-karl

The recommended wired solution for Android is the 'IOIO', a
microprocessor-controlled board which can communicate with up
to 4 serial devices completely independently (no need for the
devices to use the same baud rates etc). All this data is sent
over USB to the Android device.

Pretty much every device from Android 1.5 (circa 2009)
onwards is compatible with this system 'out of the box'. You just
have to enable an Android setting called 'USB debugging'. If the
manufacturer has disabled this function it can usually be enabled
by 'rooting' the device.

The flipside of this level of sophistication is that there have been
teething problems. The IOIO was conceived as a hobbyist
platform emphasising flexibility rather than absolute stability.
Rob Dunning and Ytai Ben-Tsvi, the creator of the IOIO, have
hopefully solved all these problems for XCSoar 6.3 onwards.

The IOIO itself is an open source design, and the recently
released DroidSoar board ( http://tvlnet.de/ , German text) is
an interpretation designed for gliders, providing two serial ports
with IGC-compatible pinouts and charging the Android device in
use. There's other products on the way also.