Connecting usb stuff to the Xoom and debug through wifi!

Today I played a lot with my Motorola Xoom trying to connect different devices.

Games
We started connecting the tablet to the television using the hdmi output. We installed Snes9x EX and played some snes games. The great thing about Snes9x is that it allows to connect Wiimotes. The screen over the right shows a Killer Instinct fight!

Kinect

Today at work they bought a Kinect to test stuff. Android 3.1 + usb host == kinect? I entered the freenode irc chat of the openkinect guys. They give me some excellent support but they doubted that it would work. I will try it out. If I found something useful I will do a blogpost about it.

USB keyboard/mouse

The usb keyboard worked fine but the mouse didn't. The mouse turns on, but the pointer doesn't appear in the screen.

Other Android devices

One of the samples of android-12 is called AdbTest. You can connect an android device and it will read the logs. I connect my nexus one and it worked fine.

Hacking

Cool. Good results so far but I felt disappointed with the mouse, so I decided to try to read what the usb say for that device. When I was going to connect the mouse I discovered that I was missing an extra slot for debugging. I first based my code in the AdbTest and place my logs in the TextView.

After failing trying to get the device name I started reading the documentation, and I found there were Debugging considerations when using the USB Host and Accessory. There are five easy steps you need to do to debug without a usb cable.

1. Connect the Android-powered device via USB to your computer.
2. From your SDK platform-tools/ directory, enter adb tcpip 5555 at the command prompt.
3. Enter adb connect device_ip:5555 You should now be connected to the Android-powered device and can issue the usual adb commands like adb logcat.
4. To set your device to listen on USB, enter adb usb.

It does work!

I needed to post this before continue coding :)