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Android development: Revision 20

I will try to collect here useful tips for making Android development work for command-line loving person like me. See Android G1 if you are interested in hardware.

Contents


ADB

Part of http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Remote adb access

dpavlin@t61p:~/Downloads/android$ adb shell
# setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555


dpavlin@t61p:~$ ssh -R 5555:192.168.1.40:5555 klin


dpavlin@klin:~$ adb connect 127.0.0.1:5555

dpavlin@klin:~$ adb devices
List of devices attached 
127.0.0.1:5555  device

provision device

adb shell
su
cd /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases
sqlite3 settings.db
INSERT INTO system (name, value) VALUES ('device_provisioned', 1);
.exit

CyanogenMod

SL4A

x86

froyo 2.2

dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ repo init -u git://git.android-x86.org/manifest.git -b froyo-x86
dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ repo sync

# configure build
dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ . build/envsetup.sh
dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ lunch

# build
dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ make -j8

audio doesn't work

eclair 2.1

dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ repo init -u git://git.android-x86.org/manifest.git -b eclair-x86
dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ repo sync
dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ make -j8 iso_img TARGET_PRODUCT=generic_x86
# doesn't work

dpavlin@android:/srv/android-x86$ make -j8 iso_img TARGET_PRODUCT=eeepc

Application build process

repo

repack applications