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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

Removing dependencies on /system

The dependencies to the Android /system folder include two parts:

  • All kernel modules for device drivers are located at: $OUT/system/lib/modules/4.x.x-android-x86.
  • We need to run some basic Linux commands during the recovery boot process. For example, we do hardware initialization using the following command:
    on init
    exec -- /system/bin/logwrapper /system/bin/sh /system/etc/init.sh

Let's work on the preceding two points one by one in the following sections.

Hardware initialization in recovery

To load the minimum device drivers needed by recovery, we have to change the execution of the shell script for Android system start. This is a customization process from general to specific, which is different from the goal of the Android...

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