Android operating system with touchscreen?

Question

So, I bought a "LCD Display, Kuman 3.5 Inch 480x320 TFT Touch Screen Monitor for Raspberry Pi" from Amazon. Now, I thought it was plug and go, but it's not. No biggy, I decided to figure out how to use it anyways. But, I can't find anything online about what I want to do, and I'm horrible with coding.

So, here is what I want. I was to run an Android operating system using this screen. So, how would I get the drivers and run them through the Android os? Is that even possible?

Answer 1

[disclaimer] While not on Android OS, I'd like to share my experience on getting it running a minimal debian/raspbian based Linux distro - Minibian https://minibianpi.wordpress.com/download/.

This device seems to be the same as the one here http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/3.5inch_RPi_LCD_(A) so those instructions work too

H/W wise

• Raspberry Pi 3 (the latest model out there as of this writing)
• 5V/2.5A power supply (wall wart)
• 4 GB class 4 micro SD (Sandisk)
• HDMI cable and LED monitor required to verify the OS was written correctly on the card and install the required device drivers
• USB keyboard / mouse
• network / internet connection

setup

• connect power supply, network

S/W wise

• Ubuntu running on personal laptop - for creating the bootable card

steps:

• Download the compressed image from the minibian web site and extract the .img from it
• Inserted the microsd into an adapter and then into the laptop
• It showed up as /dev/sdb on my machine which might be different on yours
• I used the dd command (required super user privilege though) to write the image into the disk using the instructions here

www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/linux.md

• moved the card from the laptop onto the Pi and powered up
• this booted it up the OS with the boot log showing up on the LED monitor
• during this time,assuming the module is correctly connected to the Pi, the display should be completely white. this is a good sign that the device is atleast getting the power
• the next step was to get the drivers on to the new OS
• download the driver archive using wget http://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/3/3d/LCD-show-160811.tar.gz on to the raspberry pi
• extract the contents tar xvf LCD-show-160811.tar.gz
• cd into the extracted folder and execute the driver installer cd ./LCD-show ./LCD35-show here 35 maps to 3.5" display
• this should show some brief disk activity followed by a reboot
• on reboot the boot log should show up on the TS/Display

I realize this doesnt answer your question on getting it running on android, I hope these steps are atleast useful to verify you have a working piece.