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Originally Posted by PF4Mobile
this is one thing that I can not understand, why would somebody bother with writing software for these devices when Android is already out there.
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I am not an android programmer, but it has several reasons. First, Android is optimized for touch-screen devices, while e-readers are mostly button-oriented, and modifying the system might lead to a lot of problem, too. Second, Android can run only java programs above the Dalvik virtual machine, that is, you have to write all softwares from scratch in java, which is painful.
On the other hand, linux is "already out there", so I guess that Onyx guys just use standard open source softwares, libraries and software components. For a proprietary closed system, modifying a standard linux distro is much less painful than creating an own Android version (w/o market etc.) and then writing all the softwares in java from scratch.