We procured a new micro SD card from RadioShack and repeated the same steps in our previous post to boot the Beableboard into Android. As a precaution, a fan kept the board cool at all times to hopefully avoid the same overheat problem that occurred before.
Recall the several network and installation issues that prevented us from getting Phil's Beats to work. This time, we managed to discover a hackish way to open and run the application's .apk file without the need for internet access on the Beagleboard (credits to Phil for finding this out). It involved three simple steps:
1. Placing the .apk package onto the SD card's 3rd partition. (This is done on a pc)
2. Insert SD card into Beagleboard and boot into Android.
Select web browser and enter
file:///sdcard//<appname>.apk
in the address bar.
3. Follow the on screen steps to complete installation and open the application.
We were delighted to see that the Beats game had a great performance and ran at the maximum 60 fps almost constantly!
Our next milestone will be getting Kinect to work with Android like it did with Ubuntu. However, this is likely to be more challenging given the relatively poor documentation on this topic.
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