Armworks have put up a wiki for it's devices, you can find it here. It's a mediawiki based site, so it should be familiar to anyone that's used elinux or any other mediawiki based wiki.
You can jump straight to the mini210S pages here, I've spent a few days adding content with tutorials on things I've managed to discover since I got my lovely mini210S in the post :) I'm sure over the coming weeks and months the mini210S page will fill out nicely with community contributed code, projects and information.
I will probably start to do a mixture of wiki posts and link back to them here with a bit of background around the tutorial/how to, makes sense rather than blogging about it then having to reformat it for the wiki as well.
The tutorials to note so far are:
How to burn a rootfs image to nand
How to root Android 4.0.3 on the mini210S
How to install google apps into the android 4.0.3 img and burn to nand
How to install google apps on the mini210S Android 4.0.3
How to access android debug bridge via tcpip
Burning your own rootfs to nand is obviously going to be a useful skill :D FriendlyArm provided a prebuilt rootfs for us, so if you haven't got the time or inclination to build your own, you can just dump your working project binaries and scripts into a known working rootfs and just test them out. Of course once you work out how to build your own rootfs you can make your own from scratch and burn it quite easily.
Rooting Android 4.0.3 seems odd that you'd have to root a development device until of course you consider it's 'rooted' from a development point of view but not rooted from an end user viewpoint. so if you want to run around android treating it like you would any other device that you own, then you'll want to root it :) Of course this won't be the case if you're doing an installation of some kind, so use this with caution as rooting has serious security implications.
Google Apps, there are a couple tutorials for getting google apps. onto a mini210S, if you're developing android software on a mini210S, you're probably going to want some kind of access to google play (formally android market) this has to be done by installing google apps (gapps), if you are 'into' using google's web software then you will need to install google apps. Google apps. provides youtube, gmail, maps, play apps. for android, unfortunately the mini210S doesn't have them installed as standard so we have no way of installing them normally, so a tutorial is needed, I did 2, to cover 2 different methods.
Android debug Bridge via tcp/ip, this tutorial gives a quick and simple way to connect to adb on the mini210S via LAN/Wifi, saves digging around for a usb cable and could end up being a very powerful remote debugging feature, works nicely on a standard home network, I wonder how well it would cope across the internet?
There's also a tutorial on installing flash player on the mini210S, only really of any interest to UK mini210S owners, I did this one so that I could watch iplayer through the mini210S :D
They are mainly Android tutorials at the moment, should have more linux tutorials coming up. I will also have some info on booting the kernel and rootfs from an SD card soon too!!
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