Roger Ye's Android System Programming PDF

Key Features

• Master Android system-level programming by means of integrating, customizing, and increasing well known open resource projects
• Use Android emulators to discover the genuine power of your hardware
• Master key debugging options to create a basic improvement environment

Book Description

Android process programming includes either and software program wisdom to paintings on method point programming. The builders have to use numerous ideas to debug different parts within the goal units. With all of the demanding situations, you always have a deep studying curve to grasp suitable wisdom during this zone. This e-book won't merely provide the key wisdom you want to comprehend Android procedure programming, yet also will arrange you as you get hands-on with initiatives and achieve debugging talents so you might use on your destiny projects.

You will begin by way of exploring the fundamental setup of AOSP, and construction and trying out an emulator picture. within the first undertaking, you are going to how you can customise and expand the Android emulator. Then you are going to stream directly to the true challenge—building your personal Android procedure on VirtualBox. you will see find out how to debug the init method, get to the bottom of the bootloader factor, and let a number of interfaces. when you've got a whole method, you are going to how you can patch and improve it via restoration. through the ebook, you'll get to understand worthy how one can combine and reuse latest open resource initiatives resembling LineageOS (CyanogenMod), Android-x86, Xposed, and GApps on your personal system.

What you'll learn

• Set up the Android improvement surroundings and set up resource code repositories
• Get accustomed to the Android process architecture
• Build the Android emulator from the AOSP resource tree
• Find out the best way to allow WiFi within the Android emulator
• Debug the boot up method utilizing a personalised Ramdisk
• Port your Android method to a brand new platform utilizing VirtualBox
• Find out what restoration is and notice easy methods to permit it within the AOSP build
• Prepare and try OTA packages

About the Author

Roger Ye has labored within the region of embedded method programming for greater than 10 years. He has labored on method programming for cellular units, domestic gateways, and telecommunication structures for varied businesses, reminiscent of Motorola, Emerson, and Intersil.

Most lately, he has labored as an engineering supervisor, prime a staff of Android engineers to increase cellular safety purposes at Intel defense. With huge wisdom and adventure within the components of embedded platforms and cellular gadget improvement, he released a booklet known as Embedded Programming with Android, Addison-Wesley, in 2015.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Android procedure Programming
2. Setting up the advance Environment
3. Discovering Kernel, HAL and digital Hardware
4. Customizing the Android Emulator
5. Enabling ARM Translator and Introducing local Bridge
6. Debugging the Boot up procedure utilizing a personalised Ramdisk
7. Enabling wireless within the Android Emulator
8. Creating your individual equipment on VirtualBox
9. Booting Up x86vbox utilizing PXE/NFS
10. Enabling Graphics
11. Enabling VirtualBox-Specific Interfaces
12. Introducing Recovery
13. Creating OTA Packages
14. Customizing and Debugging Recovery