10-06-2016, 06:48 PM
(10-06-2016, 07:56 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: Acutually , ayufan's (7) build does GPIO in sysfs just as well as the gnu+linux distros. A little known fact , actually Android has 'always' been able to do GPIO and all that needed to happen was set an option for the kernel compile; that's it !
Thanks for that Marcus, good to know the Android 7 build has finally enabled that.
I should probably have been clearer above above as I was referring to APP support... the kernel has always support GPIO access as long as the correct bits set. It's just since user access to the GPIOs isn't that common, that I don't think anyone has written any apps to let you do it. Hence why I hope the pine64 can be the first to promote that, as with a properly enabled kernel, and a current Andoid build, having a nice touch-screen app to access the GPIO would be a real nice feather in it's cap!