As you know, for my Ph.D. I’m developing a specialized version of Erlang for IoT scenarios, called ELIoT (ErLang for the Internet of Things); we had it running on some known (or less known) devices, such as the Raspberry Pi or the Carambola, and in the last few days I decided it was time for Android to enter the scene.
So I ported the framework forward a couple of minor versions (from Erlang 15B to 15B03.1), and used the existing patches to cross-compile it on Android. The screenshots show it running on my Nexus 7, pinging a Linux VM running on my computer. Unfortunately, for now it has to be run as root, so the next step is to try this SL4A stuff (which was in the original patch set, but as of now it simply crashes, so being root was the easiest way to try everything).
P.S.: don’t worry about the debugging prints on the VM side, they were there simply to check that no strange bytes were passing as messages on the network.
[…] than the ones on which I already ported it (the Raspberry Pi and the Carambola). So last week I ported it to Android, and while I still have to refine it so that it can be executed on non-rooted devices (i.e., you […]