He starts by giving details about Android, its implementation, and how source code is managed. He then gives details about how to add support for a new board, taking advantage of Linaro scripts and infrastructure, already supporting community boards from several ARM SoC vendors.
Here are the main topics covered during this 48 minutes presentation:
- General Android Overview (at 5:00 in the video) and different Android “components”:
- The Linux kernel
- Non-upstreamed kernel extensions
- A set of shared and static libraries
- A set of Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs)
- A JIT capable VM
- Android activity framework
- Android applications
- Repo, Gerrit and Git (25:50)
- Porting to a new Platform (35:07)
- HALs and Hardware Acceleration (39:00)
- Continuous Integration (41:02)
- Linaro Evaluation Build (LEB) Integration (45:06)
Slides can be found on the Linaro wiki at http://j.mp/p224Ie
Links to references used in the presentation:
- http://www.slideshare.net/jollen/android-os-porting-introduction
- http://elinux.org/Android_Kernel_Features
- http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APK_(file_format)
- https://sites.google.com/site/io/inside-the-android-application-framework
- http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html
- http://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-patch.html
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
