July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
282 pages
6h 12m
English
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The Android build system
Before digging into configuring and building your first Android system, we will have an overview of the build system itself, the tools involved, and the unique approach to the whole process Google has.
There is very little official documentation available about creating new modules and about the build system itself. Most of your knowledge at the end of this journey will come from your own hands-on experience and from our experience that we put in these pages.
An overview
As with lots of projects out there, open source or closed source, Android uses the powerful tool make to build the whole system, but compared to all other projects, Android uses it in a completely different way.
The common approach of using make would be to ...