Is it possible to download and install agopengps on a android tablet? If not is there a way to work around this?
No, it’s not possible to run AOG on an Android tablet. Some people here are working hard to realize an Android version. But most of us are farmers, and don’t have much time in the summer for coding.
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I see no updates, so I assume, no one has setup anything that will run on Android yet?
Opengps looks like a complex setup. To port over
I am not 100% sure what aspect of the port is hard to make, hardware support or user interface.
I assume the varied hardware in use makes this harder to port over to Android?
Why not do a new streamlined build. Take the best from what exists but streamline it, treat this as a new start, so if it is a new build for a new operating system. Backwards compatibility is maybe not the main goal more a new start from the old bones.
Pick set hardware to support with the Android build.
Rather than a 100% backwards compatible version.
Ask the question, if I was going to build a brand new auto steer system, for a steering ready tractor, and a tractor that needs a steering motor.
How would I build it and what would it do? Built from an android base.
How will the tablet communicate with the system. What method is best/ most reliable/simple.
What hardware would I use to build any new auto steer system, if I had a blank canvas. Think simple from the software side as much, as anything else.
I would make concessions to steering ready tractors and older tractors that will use a motor to turn the wheel. If that’s easy to support.
Set out a basic build config where users can select hardware from a supported list. This can later be added to, as better hardware is found or supported.
Android tablets are much more available and cheaper to buy, a DIY system made from scratch now would very likely be built around them rather than a windows tablet.
As I mentioned, I would make this a new start from old bones, take what’s good from the old and port it to Android and rebuild the rest around what would be the best way to go, hardware, software, system communication, And setup.
Often simplest less complex is best, make everything talk to each other on one communication protocol. What’s the best way to link a tablet to the system, can the system use that to do all its communication? Or is another more suited for system side where communication to the tractor is needed.
So tablet and system how do they talk with Android in mind where they do have usb but also Bluetooth and WiFi.
Out of the options can we go wireless tablet?
What does the new system look like, does it need a new AIO board, can it run on off the shelf systems? What is the system board doing, is the tablet just a display? Is the compute now on a system board? So if the tablet is just a user interface is that simpler?
Use a mini Android/ windows pc as the brain but Android tablet as an interface.
AgOpenGPS is running on Android using the Avalonia framework. UDP and USB are possible.
Search for QtAgopenGps
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Patience works for me, a dedicated build, will always work more reliably.
Thanks everyone for your efforts.
Have you ever tried the FieldBee Android app? The basic one is free? If not I suggest you at least try it.
Some of the ways they setup how users setup field options are not bad, and graphics are done in what I would call a simpler way. Same as what they display to the user. While I am not saying copy them but design tips may offer alternative options for you.
They use an options screen that starts a field with a dialog for options, then drop to a simpler screen when the user activates it. Sometimes less is more. and simpler to program.
Well start programming then😅. It all opensource.
Let us know when you changed some design and we can try it. 
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You won’t hear from me again. There are people who can do this much better with the help of AI.
Good luck with it.