In this book, we discuss the Android system programming practices. We will use two projects (x86emu and x86vbox) to teach essential knowledge of Android system programming. The book is split into includes two parts.
The first part of this book talks about how to customize, extend, and port an Android system. We will use an Android emulator as the virtual hardware platform to demonstrate how to customize and extend an Android system. You will learn how to integrate an ARM translator (Houdini) into the Intel x86-based emulator and how to add Wi-Fi support to an Android emulator. We will use an x86emu device to learn these topics. After that, we will learn how to port an Android system to a new platform using VirtualBox. ...
