Preface

Android has caused one of the greatest revolutions of our time. Being present on smartphones, TV, tables, watches, embedded boards, it can be considered ubiquitous. Its open source nature gives companies, expert users, and hackers the opportunity to learn from, improve, and customize the system, creating a tailored version of the most popular mobile operating system.

This book is a journey from the origins of the Android project to what's in the future, walking through all the phases needed to build a custom Android system from source and from binary images.