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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

Supporting the third-party recovery packages

In Chapter 12, Introducing Recovery, we mainly give the detailed introduction about the recovery from the original AOSP. There are many open source recovery projects derived from the AOSP recovery such as TWRP or Cyanogen Recovery (CMR). They allow the users to update various update packages which cannot be done using the original recovery.

Internally, there is not too much difference between these recovery projects and the original one. They extend the original one in many different ways to meet various needs. We won't talk about these recovery projects in this book, but we can explore some third-party update packages to find out what we can do to support these famous update packages. From testing these and minor fixes, we know how to improve our recovery to suit the needs of various open source update packages.

If the third-party recovery packages are written using...

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