August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 18m
English
In Chapter 10, we booted Android using our own U-Boot. We’ve now learned how to create almost everything from scratch except the file system. The file system includes the actual Android system. To have a complete picture, this chapter explores how to build Android from source code using AOSP and CyanogenMod.
Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is an open source project managed by Google. A typical Android system usually includes two parts: the foundation of the Android system built from AOSP, and a variety of applications and services collectively known as Google Mobile Services (GMS). Many popular applications from Google are part of GMS, such as Gmail, Google Search, ...
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