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Build custom android device?
I would like to know what the feasibility of building a custom android device with a custom UI would be.
I would like to create/purchase a touchscreen tablet (somewhere between 5~7in) that will function as an interactive digital menu. The idea is to have a fairly basic interactive menu, where patrons can click a particular item on the menu and see a description about the food and some pictures. The device doesn't need to place the order remotely, nor does it need input jacks, 3G etc. Given the desired functionality, an ipad or equivalent would be overkill.
I am thinking that cheap Chinese tablets ($50ish) would be suffice. If using an one of these cheap tablets with an android OS, how feasible would it be to create a digital menu app for it?
I would ideally like the menu app to be the only function of the device (ie. When I turn on the device, it would directly load the app). Is something like this possible?
3 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, it's possible but locking the OS to only your APP requires an acquired knowledge that you would have to pay a computer science engineer for. Nowadays, anyone can help you with this problem. It is very simple and common place for the average person next door to write you an APP to do what you desire. Heck, with a little studying you can produce the APP yourself. While I am sure the APP is already available for download or millions of replicas like it, I am not certain if you could only lock the device to that APP (itself). Contact an experienced IT person and run your idea by them, they should be able to provide more insight to reasonable solution.
- 7 years ago
You know you’re a hardcore Android user when you buy a new smartphone and your first thought is to see if there’s a CyanogenMod ROM available for it yet. Custom ROMs have become a bit of an underground industry as users worldwide look to try and ditch the corporate bloatware and create a lean phone experience.
CyanogenMod would easily be the most well-known community ROM maker and it has a brilliant track record of being able to create incredibly lean ROMs at a fraction in size of their stock corporate counterparts. But as good as CyanogenMod is for shrinking ROMs, sometimes the cost can be a bit high.
CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) — if you like, a vanilla version of the latest available Android release. However, it means the CyanogenMod team has to build a custom version for each phone, baking in the device drivers for each phone’s functionality, and it doesn’t always include everything. For example, a recent CM10.1 ROM I loaded into my Galaxy S III didn’t support MHL (Mobile High-definition Link), so I lost the ability to watch Netflix on my big-screen TV from my phone. As much as I wanted to use CyanogenMod, losing my big-screen video streaming was a bit of a deal-breaker.
Generally, there are two ways you can create a custom ROM for your phone: you can start from scratch with AOSP or you can build on an official stock ROM and customise it yourself. AOSP is a lot of work, so props to CyanogenMod for the work it does, but we’re going to look at how to create a custom ROM from a stock release and at the same time, introduce you to the Kitchen.
