Knowing things better

  J ust as i was about to leave i was asked to complete my work.That work was actually this compilation , might sound similar to what my previous post was but trust me it wasn't. Okay bear with me,As i am gonna write this blog like a story and gonna tell the compilation process as i during it. In the beginning it was all so well and kept my fingers crossed while the source was downloading using the repo tool. NOTE: The step till lunch command you can follow as mentioned in my previous blog , but what changes is the way the "make" is done. The android build is accustomed so that it will result in few needed images (.img).But as i went through the blog of the guy who discussed about it said the AndroVM has a dependency ie:openGL which emulator won't be able to fulfill. So something struck me while i was building it that something other than emulator is required, then i came across the AndroVM player. So the question i asked was - Is it required in order to play...

Hi guys, This blog is gonna help you in building the android from source code.The Android is an open source and hence available freely over the internet on some privately owned repositories like git , google etc. The build we are gonna work on is the android build.Which can be downloaded via a repo tool.The repo tool is just a wrapper around the git commands.So basically it shortens it up.Use this tool to download the source as it like git provides flexible environment to work with. This tutorial demands the following pre-requisites Knowledge of android operating system. Repo/Git knowledge. Linux environment So Before starting up let me just place the environment of my pc on which i ran this test.The pc was an acer laptop aspire5733 with an ubuntu10.04   64bit os inside it with the following configuration RAM -1 gb SwapSpace - nill HDD-500 gb Now it's time to build the environment for the build to run.The build requires a set of pre-installed softwares inside...