The HP TouchPad is now capable of running Android with full use of the touch screen, thanks to the technical team at TouchDroid.

1. September 9, 2011
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HP TouchPad screen can now support
Android | Technology News
HP TouchPad screen can now support Hard at work porting Android over to HP’s discon-
Android | Technology News tinued but much-in-demand tablet, the TouchDroid
techs were able to create the necessary drivers to
Anyone who picked up a $100 HP TouchPad at the re- coax Android 2.3.5 to run on the TouchPad and let
cent fire sale may eventually be able to run An- people tap into the touch screen.
droid on their new tablet.
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The crew at Cya-
nogenMod,
which creates
customized A TouchDroid developer demonstrated how he
builds of An- could fluidly and smoothly tap and move his finger
droid for mo- around a TouchPad running Android with no de-
bile devices, lays or skips. He even demoed Android’s multitouch
has succeeded feature, moving five fingers and then ten fingers
in porting over across the screen.
a version of An-
droid that can
run on HP’s now discontinued tablet.
Though TouchDroid
An open letter from CyanogenMod posted on is currently using
the RootzWiki Web site yesterday show that deve- Android 2.3.5 Gin-
lopers have so far been able to run a Cyanogenmod gerbread on its demo
version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread on an HP Tou- tablet, its ultimate
chPad. goal is to support the
current flavor of Ho-
Next on the team’s agenda will be to enable touch- neycomb or even the
screen support. But to continue its work, Cyanogen- upcoming Ice Cream
Mod is looking for a helping hand in the form of a Sandwich on a TouchPad. The team seems to be
few more HP TouchPads that it can use for testing. making quick progress as a little more than two
The final goal will be to enable TouchPad users to weeks ago, its developers were still trying to drum
run both the modified Android build and HP’s We- up a TouchPad that they could use for testing.
bOS on the same tablet.
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In addition to TouchDroid, another group called Cya-
The HP TouchPad is now capable of running An- nogenMod is striving to port Android to the HP ta-
droid with full use of the touch screen, thanks to blet. As of late August, the CyanogenMod team had
the technical team at TouchDroid. succeeded in running Android on the TouchPad but
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had yet to build support for the touch-screen drivers.
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2. September 9, 2011
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HP TouchPad screen can now support Android | Technology News
The latest development also follows a conflict among
some of TouchDroid’s members over soliciting mo-
ney to buy TouchPads, an issue that actually split
the group into two teams now working separately.
HP’s TouchPad has been a hot commodity since the
company announced a few weeks ago that it was
pulling the plug on the tablet. To sell off existing
inventory, HP lowered the price to $99 for the 16GB
version and $149 for the 32GB model, from $499 and
$599, respectively. That fire sale ignited a flurry of
buyers, causing HP and other retailers to quickly
run out of available stock.
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