Recommended hardware for Android Processing

incoherentrace

I was wondering if anyone has any tips on finding cheap hardware that will work well with Android for Processing, especially for running stable for longer periods of time.

I know not all hardware even works. In the past I have organized courses on creative coding where people got to take their visual creation home on a tablet (Q88 A10) which was framed like a painting. Not all tablets we tested allowed for side-loading or rooting for example.

So, which hardware are you happy with?

I am especially curious about low-end cheap Chinese hardware that is stable.

For example:

• the Nexbox A95x is a cheap ($25-40) TV-box that's very popular, and has custom roms and can be rooted. But I don't know if it will work with Processing/Ketai. And you need a male-to-male USB cable to connect it to your pc, it doesn't have a micro-usb port.
• The Teclast P80h tablet is about $70 and seems quite popular.
• What about the Dualboot tablets like the Chuwi Hi8 or the Teclast X80 pro? If all else fails you can still run processing on Windows :-) They do tend to get hot though.
• Maybe a refurbished former flagship phone, like a Nexus 5?

Personally I don't recommend the Nexus 7 tablets: they discharge faster than they can recharge, so running them in an exhibit or other installation is a bad idea.

incoherentrace

For those finding this later, there's some discussion here: https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/24172/best-processing-hardware-setup-for-installations

incoherentrace

Also, the latest versions of Linux now deal quite well with Intel Atom Z-series devices (often cheap z-8300 devices with 2gb ram, like the Teclast X80 Pro tablet, can be had for 55 euro)

hudson_m4000

I have used various devices, phones and tablets and all have worked well. Bugdet phones from HTC, Samsung, LG, Moto and cheap tablets from Zenithink and Neocore (these are very good value!). As long as you can enable developer mode and usb debugging it should be fine.