Summary

In this chapter, we discussed what Android system programming is and the scope involved in system-level programming in this book. After that, we took an overview of the Android system architecture and talked about the layers that we will focus on in this book. We also discussed the virtual hardware platforms that we use in this book. In this book, we use the code from various third-party projects, so we also took a brief overview of each of them in this chapter. In the next chapter, we will start to learn about the development environment setup for Android system programming. This includes both development tools and the source code repository setup.