Android System Development Android System Development

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Android System Development
Android System
Development

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Hyperlinks in the document
There are many hyperlinks in the document
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Regular hyperlinks:
https://kernel.org/
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Kernel documentation links:
dev-tools/kasan
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Links to kernel source files and directories:
drivers/input/
include/linux/fb.h
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Links to the declarations, definitions and instances of kernel
symbols (functions, types, data, structures):
platform_get_irq()
GFP_KERNEL
struct file_operations
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Company at a glance
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Engineering company created in 2004,
named ”Free Electrons” until February 2018.
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Locations: Orange, Toulouse, Lyon (France)
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Serving customers all around the world
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Head count: 13
Only Free Software enthusiasts!
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Focus: Embedded Linux, Linux kernel, build systems and low
level Free and Open Source Software for embedded and
real-time systems.
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Activities: development, training, consulting, technical
support.
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Added value: get the best of the user and development
community and the resources it offers.
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Generic course information
Generic course
information

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Hardware used in this training session
BeagleBone Black, from CircuitCo
▶ Texas Instruments AM335x (ARM Cortex-A8
CPU)
▶ SoC with 3D acceleration, additional
processors (PRUs) and lots of peripherals.
▶ 512 MB of RAM
▶ 4 GB of on-board eMMC storage
▶ Ethernet, USB host and USB device,
microSD, micro HDMI
▶ 2 x 46 pins headers, with access to many
expansion buses (I2C, SPI, UART and more)
▶ A huge number of expansion boards, called
capes. See
https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:
BeagleBone_Capes.
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Course outline - Day 1
Building Android
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Introduction to Android
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Getting Android sources
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Building and booting Android
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Introduction to the Linux kernel
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Compiling and booting the Linux kernel
Labs: download Android sources, compile them and boot them
with the Android emulator. Recompile the Linux kernel.
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Course outline - Day 2
Android kernel, boot and filesystem details
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Android changes to the Linux kernel
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Android bootloaders
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Booting Android
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Using ADB
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Android filesystem
Labs: customize, compile and boot Android for the BeagleBone
Black board.
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Course outline - Day 3
Supporting a new product and customizing it
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Android build system. Add a new module and product.
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Android native layer - Bionic, Toolbox, init, various daemons,
Dalvik, hardware abstraction, JNI...
Labs: Use ADB, create a new product, customize the product for
the BeagleBone Black board.
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