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Android System Programming

You're reading from   Android System Programming Porting, customizing, and debugging Android HAL

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125360
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Roger Ye Roger Ye
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Shen Liu Shen Liu
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Android System Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up the Development Environment 3. Discovering Kernel, HAL, and Virtual Hardware 4. Customizing the Android Emulator 5. Enabling the ARM Translator and Introducing Native Bridge 6. Debugging the Boot Up Process Using a Customized ramdisk 7. Enabling Wi-Fi on the Android Emulator 8. Creating Your Own Device on VirtualBox 9. Booting Up x86vbox Using PXE/NFS 10. Enabling Graphics 11. Enabling VirtualBox-Specific Hardware Interfaces 12. Introducing Recovery 13. Creating OTA Packages 14. Customizing and Debugging Recovery

Creating a new x86vbox device

Once we have the HAL for VirtualBox, we can create a new device named x86vbox now. If we review how we created the x86emu device in Chapter 4, Customizing the Android Emulator, we know that we need to have a board/device configuration Makefile and a product definition Makefile for a new device. We can also create a new device by inheriting it from an existing device. If we look at the preceding table of x86 HAL, we can see that there is a common x86 device project, device/common, which can be found in Android-x86. We will create our new device x86vbox by inheriting from this common device for x86. The x86vbox that we create in this chapter is a 32-bit x86 device. You can follow the same instructions to create an x86_64 device by yourself.

As we did in Chapter 4, Customizing the Android Emulator, we create an AndroidProducts.mk Makefile to include the product definition Makefile for...

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