I like using my android box and I want to learn how to build an android box.
Arduino products I am confused what you can do with them.
Is it possible to use an arduino kit to make an android box aka media streaming device with Kodi?
I know there is the raspberry pii kits but they are very basic and not enough for what I want to do.
Right now I am buying an android box to open up, learn how it works. I know the boxes are based on some kind of linux distro, not sure, with an android firmware, usually custom. I was inspired by Wetek boxes, because they are great and are very legit. But they have custom firmware that I cant use.
I realized the other day that people can download Android OS and Android Tv OS for free but not sure how that works. Same thing with linux. I have no ecperience with linux distros.
I know how to setup or upgrade basic desktop computer components. Laptops are harder but it seems android boxes use some type of chip that is a cpu with ram built in like Amlogic S805 or S905x. I have no idea where to get those compents, I dont think laptop components can be used to make an android box.
Can someone point me in the right direction in terms of components, kits, guides, tutorials, etc?
I tried to read some ebooks on Amazon but they dont explain it properly, instead I got directions to build a desktop.
I know there is the raspberry pii kits but they are very basic and not enough for what I want to do.
I find it hard to reconcile those two statements.
How can you possibly expect to build anything even half as complex as an RPi if you have none of the required skills.
I realized the other day that people can download Android OS and Android Tv OS for free but not sure how that works. Same thing with linux. I have no ecperience with linux distros.
IMHO you fill find a great deal more online advice about building a Linux PC than you will for an Android device. Start with Linux and when you can do that you will probably have the skills to switch to Android. Get a cheap PC or laptop and learn how to get Linux running on it so that you can concentrate on learning about the Operating System without needing to worry whether the hardware works. Later you can consider assembling your own hardware if that is what you want.
And none of that can be done with an Arduino - it is not powerful enough. A PC runs at 1600 MHz (or more) and has 2,000,000 kilobytes if RAM (or more) and an Arduino Uno runs at 16 MHz and has 2 kilobytes of RAM
IMHO you fill find a great deal more online advice about building a Linux PC than you will for an Android device. Start with Linux and when you can do that you will probably have the skills to switch to Android. Get a cheap PC or laptop and learn how to get Linux running on it so that you can concentrate on learning about the Operating System without needing to worry whether the hardware works.
Or even get an existing PC running Windoze to dual-boot Linux.
Or run Linux under VirtualBox on a PC
Or put a Linux distribution on a USB memory stick and boot your PC from that.
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Or even get an existing PC running Windoze to dual-boot Linux.
Or run Linux under VirtualBox on a PC
Or put a Linux distribution on a USB memory stick and boot your PC from that.
I suspect that VirtualBox would require more knowledge than the OP currently possesses.
Puppy Linux makes the 3rd option very simple. And it is particularly suited to older (and cheaper) PCs and laptops.