robotnix VS Pine64-Arch

danielfullmer/robotnix

commit 660b23fb152874b6d237065045c78ceeb6ebdbf9 Author: Chirayu Desai Date: Fri Jun 24 01:41:28 2022 +0530 releasetools: Replace Trichrome fingerprint * Trichrome APKs depend on TrichromeLibrary, and they specify both package name and a certificate digest * We sign TrichromeLibrary and both dependent APKs with the same key, so we can simply make sure that the fingerprint matches the key the APK is being (re)signed with Based on: https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix/blob/master/modules/apps/chromium-trichrome-patcher.py Change-Id: I79f8c69787decd5abbb5d5513dee9bc357eb8814

You might be interested in https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix

Just noting, using Nix it is possible to build an actual real deal Android image using Robotnix:

- https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix/

This is different from a non-Android Linux on Mobile devices, which is what Mobile NixOS aims to achieve :).

If you still want to do your own builds, I'd recommend looking at Robotnix (https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix). While it doesn't out of the box build on AWS like this, it's a way more sane build process and it would be easy enough to execute a build on any cloud provider.

There are some tools already which support automated builds such as https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack and https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix - however they'll need work to support both CalyxOS and also Android Auto.

Phone has Tow-boot and the open-source modem firmware already installed. eMMC & sdcard have just been formatted & flashed to the latest Arch Phosh image from danctnix.

I flashed my pinephone pro with an arch-sxmo image (here: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases), and it works great, but I can't seem to switch the autologin to a new user. In fact, I couldn't find a conf file, neither in /etc/conf.d/, neither in /etc/tinydm.d/env-wayland/. I added a "tinydm" file in both directories, containing the line "AUTOLOGIN_UID=1001" (1001 is the userid I want to log in at boot), but to no avail. Any suggestion?

The keyboard is an important detail! Given the state of the PinePhone Pro, and that you want to use keyboard, have a look at DanctNIX Sxmo https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases .

I was using the danctnix arch build running Phosh - https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases

At the time (about 10 months ago) it was the most solid I could find. I'm a little out of date at this point, but I'll probably check back in on it some time in the next few months.

And I agree - even at the time it was a usable phone. A tad slow for my tastes, but hard to argue with the performance given the low cost of the hardware.

For comparison: Here‘s the (IMHO sane) DanctNIX PKGBUILD: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/blob/master/PKGBUILDS/phosh/phosh/PKGBUILD