Building Android for the Raspberry Pi
summary
Builds Android Pie from AOSP for a Raspberry Pi 3 and produces bootable images written to a microSD card, using a Consta/Lineage kernel and a board support package with HALs. Graphics fall back to SwiftShader software GPU because Mesa/VC4 integration is unfinished. Broadcom’s bootloader forces SD-card updates; USB OTG is unavailable so debugging uses ADB over Ethernet. HDMI and touch mostly work, audio and hardware video codecs do not.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:48About Chris Simmonds
- 2:34What do you need to run Android?
- 4:12Android on dev boards
- 4:57Why Raspberry Pi?
- 6:00The Raspberry Pi 3B
- 7:33Hasn't it been done already?
- 10:03What do you need?
- 11:38Putting Android on Raspberry Pi
- 12:54Getting AOSP
- 14:46Customizing AOSP
- 16:49Device configuration
- 18:22Selecting the base product
- 19:37Building AOSP
- 20:40When the build is over
- 21:37But wait, what about Linux?
- 23:41Challenge 1: Booting the Raspberry Pi
- 24:13Boot files
- 27:01Graphics: Mesa
- 34:04Open source graphics go mainstream
- 35:22Graphics: Swiftshader
- 36:09ADB
- 38:06Current status
- 40:38Delving deeper
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