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Learning Embedded Android N Programming

By : Ivan Morgillo
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Learning Embedded Android N Programming

By: Ivan Morgillo

Overview of this book

Take a deep dive into the Android build system and its customization with Learning Embedded Android Programming, written to help you master the steep learning curve of working with embedded Android. Start by exploring the basics of Android OS, discover Google’s “repo” system, and discover how to retrieve AOSP source code. You'll then find out to set up the build environment and the first AOSP system. Next, learn how to customize the boot sequence with a new animation, and use an Android “kitchen” to “cook” your custom ROM. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build customized Android open source projects by developing your own set of features.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Embedded Android N Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting ready


As we already know, Google is the official manager of the entire hardware infrastructure supporting Android—everything is hosted and maintained by Google. The source code repository also provides a web UI to graphically navigate the source code. This source code browser is available at https://android.googlesource.com/.

The following screenshot shows an example of what the page looks like:

Every single item of the list shown in the previous screenshot is a git repository. This can give you a perfect idea of the importance of Google's repo tool—manually managing this many repositories would be pure madness! Using repo, retrieving, downloading, and creating the proper folder structure is a few-lines' task. Let's do it!

First things first—create a working folder. Open a Terminal and create a folder like this:

~$ mkdir WORKING_DIRECTORY
~$ cd WORKING_DIRECTORY

Once in the folder, run:

~/WORKING_DIRECTORY$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest

The URL specifies...