Strategy of integration
In the preceding sections, we talked about Android architecture, AOSP, and third-party open source projects for Android. The software industry has been there for decades. There are so many existing source codes that can be reused and the need to create something from scratch is very rare. The porting and customization for a new platform is basically art of integration.
In this book, we will use the AOSP source code as the foundation and try to build everything on top of it. However, we may not be able to rely on AOSP source code only. In fact, we want to demonstrate how to support a platform that is not supported by AOSP. How are we going to do this? Do we create something from scratch? The answer is no. We will demonstrate ...
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