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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

What is inside an OTA package

Before we start to build an OTA package, let's look at what's inside an OTA package. The OTA package can be used to update the system to a new release. The new release can be a major release or a minor release. For example, it could be a minor update to the existing Android version to fix critical issues or security flaws. It could also be the major update from Android 6 to Android 7. Let's look at the content of the OTA package that we are going to create in this chapter to find out what is inside an OTA package. The OTA package that we are going to create in this chapter is an OTA update package of our entire ROM. We can use recovery to flash the OTA package to our VirtualBox device. This is another way to install the system image that we build to the virtual device.

Let's look at the content of the OTA package that we will build in this chapter. The OTA package...

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