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Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a.

Edit: Someone also got doom and Minecraft running on this thing

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

They wrote "lower level firmware modifications", AOSP runs on Linux kernel, and firmware modifications usually mean they modified the Linux kernel. This device seems like a regular Android phone, and afaik this rules apply to all Android phones, that's why Android rom cooking can exist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

They may be compelled to release any driver code associated, however firmware is not covered by relation to kernel. Linux runs on mostly proprietary firmware. The "linux-firmware" package in many distributions that contains hot plug firmware is mostly proprietary blobs.

That said I doubt they had much significant firmware work, it may just be logo and some tweaked configuration from their SoC vendor. They likely had to modify AOSP a bit more to allow their launcher unfettered access to the device in ways not modeled by standard AOSP, but that's user space that isn't GPL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This was a marketing post, not a technical one. Unless we see any git branches or ROM teardown we won't know what they were doing. I highly doubt that they did any kernel patches though.