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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

Android emulator kernel and hardware

We use goldfish lights as an example to perform the calling sequence analysis from an application to the goldfish HAL. Now we can look at the kernel layer and the underlying hardware. We can also take an overview from the top to the bottom again to understand how the entire system works.

The goldfish architecture

We use the preceding figure to explain goldfish kernel and hardware in detail. As you can see, the preceding figure is similar to the architecture diagram that we saw in Chapter 1, Introduction to Android System Programming. This architecture diagram is the general architecture diagram for Android, but the preceding figure is specific to goldfish.

From the diagram, we can see the parts that we are interested in the goldfish kernel and emulator hardware. From the top to the bottom, the application utilizes the Android framework to implement functionalities and access...

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