Hi all,

I've been hacking on Squeak-on-a-cellphone a bit more. Now the image can
scan /proc/bus/input/devices and /dev/input/event* (using FFI, AioPlugin
and OSProcess), and is able to open touchscreen-like devices and set up
additional World HandMorphs for them.

There's a short (2 minute) demo video linked here:
https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/09/09/squeak-postmarketos-touchscreen

I think next I might get Squeak to boot and configure the cellular
modem, and get it making calls.

Alternatively, perhaps an on-screen keyboard? Does anyone know if
anything like that already exists for Squeak?

Technical details: it uses my Actors library for Squeak, plus some (not
yet released, but only because of laziness) code for the Linux-specific
stuff on the image side.

It uses a stock Cog VM.

Cheers,
  Tony




On 8/27/20 8:42 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently been playing with Squeak running on a PostmarketOS phone
> (Samsung Galaxy S7).
> 
> Many thanks to those who recently landed the ARMv8 build of Cog. (Per
> the commit history I think the main person responsible was Ken Dickey?
> Thanks Ken!)
> 
> I wrote about progress so far here:
> https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/08/25/postmarketos-smalltalk
> 
> Today I posted an update with a saner DPI setting for the phone's
> display: https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/08/27/squeak-postmarketos-update
> 
> Next on the list is to read touchscreen input from /dev/input/event1!
> 
> Cheers,
>   Tony
>