What WiFi dongles are support, if any, under Android for AML-S905X-CC?
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Android is a PITA as it is based on the vendor SDK which is under NDA rather than upstream Linux. It requires selecting the WiFi chip during SDK build time. You can check the kernel config/modules to see what’s already installed. Do you have a commercial application?
It will be an inhouse IoT app. I am in the investigative stages now.
Going to save you a lot of time and wasted engineering by saying skip Android. There’s no security updates, the bugs are endless, and you’re not going to get much support from anyone.
Use electron or something else.
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Thank you for this information.
I tried a WiFi/BT combo USB dongle costing about $10 that on windows required no drivers. It ran on the Ubuntu desktop image on this SBC board without any intervention from me but as for Android, I don’t know. Sorry.
Android does not support WiFi dongles since they need to be picked individually. You have to compile your own Android based on the instructions provided in the SDK and enable the USB WiFi device driver. This is not trivial.