I am trying to use a Hengstler X-56 USB Printer (http://www.extendo-printer.de/en/products/x-56-series/) in Android. I am using Android x86 right now and was planning on trying to use their linux drivers and possibly including the drivers in the init.rc startup. Does anyone have a good/possible solution to printing to a USB thermal printer either through a device node or via C/Java?
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I'm developing a system in which Android connects to the Linux development board via USB. Android can not use its own Camera, BlueTooth, GPS function, Android must use the Camera, BlueTooth, GPS function in the Linux development board. I want to know what should be done to achieve the above functions.
I know there's some solutions about how to connect USB Camera with Android. But I don't know how to use the camera, bluetooth,gps all together in linux board via USB, the there's only one USB port available.
Could you help me? Thanks a lot.
My simple query is that how different are the zebra devices from normal android devices?
Also if we develop android apps for normal android devices will it work on zebra devices?or vice versa?
Also what are the android versions supported on Zebra devices?
we need to have simple app with GPS trailing/tracking and data entry on zebra devices?
Can any one suggest how to start with development?
Thanks,
Zebra offers two variants of android running on their devices, GMS or non-GMS (Google Mobility Services). In either case you will have access to all the standard Android APIs but on GMS devices you also have access to the full range of Google Play Services. You can develop an application that runs on both Zebra and non-Zebra devices, the only complication is the scanning SDK (EMDK) will need to be specified in your gradle file in rather than as an add-in (http://techdocs.zebra.com/emdk-for-android/6-4/guide/programming_practices/#emdkasadependencyinbuildgradle). The version(s) of Android supported on Zebra devices vary depending on the device type, most of the devices right now are running Lollipop or Marshmallow. Not all devices support GPS (since some are targeted for indoor use-cases like warehouses) so make sure your device supports that.
The best place to start development would be the Zebra docs page which gives an overview of your development options: http://techdocs.zebra.com/help/
For transparency, I work for Zebra
Some idea about how can I connect a Java Application to a printer device (and thermal printers too ) and print the information that I want?
My idea is connect from LPT, COM and TCP.
If you have links to some manual it would be appreciate I do not find so much clear information about this and I am so interested in that.
Thanks.
PD: Sorry for my english skills.
I am developing an application for Point of Sales. In that I want to take print from android mobile to any printer type(only receipt printer / kitchen printer) without using any SDK for particular printer.
Is this possible, or is it possible only by calling cloud Services?
We print to thermal printers via bluetooth. We use the Star printer from Star Micronics. Our users print to these from their tablets when out in the field. It was a bit tricky getting them to work. You're a bit limited in what you can print from an Android device, and it took quite a bit of searching to find something that worked.
My goal is to integrate a USB POS thermal printer with a small demo Android app that I will using from an Android tablet.
I have two POS printers:
Epson TM-T88III
POS-5870
I also have a Sanei N10 tablet that I am connecting to the POS printer via a USB OTG dongle cable.
I downloaded the USB Host Diagnostic (from Google Play Store) to see if it would recognize the POS printers that I connected to the tablet. It recognized both printers, however the EPSON TM-T88III was recognized on the Android OS level while the POS-5870 was recognized only on the kernel level.
I also tried using the USB Printer Driver 2.1 DevEd app (from the Google Play store), however I couldn't set the any of the printers as the default printer to use.
I also tried using the POS Printer Driver (ESC) app (from the Google Play store), however, it couldn't connect with the printers.
I was wondering if there is any way I can get the POS printers connected to my Android tablet and perform a test print? In addition, is there any SDKs/source code that I can use to detect and perform a test print?
My 2 cents. I did an app that can print from Android(Bluetooth) to a Zebra printer. Bases on our search, it depends more on your printer provider. We couldn't find a "library" that can print to any printer.
That's whay we went for Zebra printers, since they support Android. I'm not sure if Epson does provide Android libraries to use with their printers.
i think the problem with epson api is that it only supports ARMv5TE architecture, I am not sure which tablet you are using, but if the tablet's processor is not ARMv5TE based then I dont think the printers will work, I havent looked at any of the zebra printers, or star for that matter but i assume their apis also must have some limitations in terms of what architecture they support.
on that note Epson should release api for ARMv7 and ARMv8 all variants now as thats those are the latest chips and will be most widely used in the coming months.
As far I know, Epson have specific documentation about SDK API for mobile, you can find it in here EPSON SDK API. They provide useful information about specific device requirement and support printer.