May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
10h 49m
English
In this chapter, we want to have a brief look at recovery as well, since we have three chapters about it in the second part of this book.
Recovery is a tool that can be used to upgrade or reinstall Android systems. It is part of the AOSP source code. The source code for recovery can be found at $AOSP/bootable/recovery.
The unique point about recovery compared to the other parts of Android is that it is a self-contained system by itself. We can look at recovery using the following diagram, and compare it to the Android and Brillo architectures that we talked about before:

Recovery is a separate system from Android that shares the same ...
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