Saket, Thanks for your reply.
Though I have build android apps before, I am a newbie in android-porting. I am still trying to establish my learning base in the field and hence my questions could be obscure. Why don't I put down everything I know and you could probably just say yes/no (or point me to a web resource). AIM - Porting Android to any custom hardware (mobile/phone till now :) ). 1. Porting Linux. The linux kernel source is generally provided by all hardware manufacturers and needs to be built to generate the zimage.bin file. The configurations and 'make' commands need to be set and run. Not writing the exact commands here, plenty of web resources available. Try playing with adb to gain some confidence and know about its abilities. 2. Porting Android. Downloading AOSP, you need to get the emulator running with goldfish to get that initial confidence of having built something working. Now, build the directory structure for your product (mkvendor.sh can help). Now, do I need to apply some patches to this system before I rebuild the whole source code ? Do these patches depend on the hardware (The kernel should take care of the hardware no ?) ? How do I choose which patch ? Generate the necessary files and get the thing running. Do you think I missed something ? Regards -- Shan On Monday, 15 July 2013 21:24:21 UTC+5:30, Saket Sinha wrote: > > Dear Shanjit, > > >> intend to modify the source I downloaded from AOSP > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-4.0.1_r1 > and >>then build. > Why you want to do that? Android is an Embedded Linux Framework especially > designed for mobile and phone application. So driver for GPS, WIFI, > Blutooth etc is already there. > If you are trying to modify and port Android for some other industrial > application, then you may do that and then only should the rest of the > questions you have asked, come into picture? > > Regards, > Saket Sinha > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Shanjit Singh > <shanji...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to port Android (Jellybean) onto the beagleboard. I am a >> student and intend to modify the source I downloaded from AOSP >> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-4.0.1_r1 >> and then build. I am a newbie with considerable experience in linux though >> and some experience in Android Platform development (can make emulator >> images, makesfiles see and read sufficiently well, make directories for >> newer products and such). I don't intend to use any prebuilt image or get >> the source from projects like rowboat and such. I know its possible because >> its been done before. The following are my doubts, >> 1. Which kernel should i use ? How do i decide ? How do i include the >> kernel in the new directories i created for the custom hardware ? Any >> kernel modifications I should be looking at ?(am I on the right track ?) >> 2. If i decide to extend the hardware by installing a Wifi or any such >> hardware, how do i then include that in the hardware. >> This is what I can see ahead till now, and I am sure I could have more >> issues ahead. Any pointers ? >> Also, I could be wrong on a couple of things. Happy to absorb anything >> thrown at me. >> >> Thank you >> >> -- >> -- >> unsubscribe: android-porti...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "android-porting" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to android-porti...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-porting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
