Yocto Project and Android – Compare and Contrast

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Compares Yocto and AOSP by concrete differences: Yocto uses BitBake and layered recipes and layers to build images and toolchains on demand and is already used for ticketing machines, water‑purity testers, automotive and 4G/5G base stations; AOSP uses repo and Soong, where a repo sync downloads >100 GB and the prebuilt Clang/toolchains alone are about 42 GB, builds take hours, kernels and bootloaders come from vendors, GKI increases binary blobs, and Yocto’s open community contrasts with AOSP’s largely closed development.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:14License
3. 0:54Compare
4. 1:26Contrast
5. 2:51Getting Yocto Project
6. 3:30Setting up the environment
7. 3:53Local configuration
8. 4:28Recipes
9. 5:50Config, layer and recipe
10. 6:42Building an image
11. 7:25Building a rootfs with Yocto Project
12. 10:47What can you do with Yocto?
13. 11:57Overview of AOSP
14. 13:47Android without Google
15. 15:24The AOSP build system: repo and manifests
16. 17:55The AOSP build system: toolchains AOSP comes with toolchains for the supported compiled languages
17. 21:13The AOSP build system: external modules
18. 22:21The AOSP build system: board support packa
19. 23:58The AOSP build system: product type
20. 25:49kernel
21. 28:18Can you make a 100% open source Android p
22. 29:49Why Android is not a Linux distro
23. 34:07AOSP is not a stable platform
24. 38:14Development process: Yocto Project
25. 39:02Development process: AOSP
26. 39:57How is AOSP developed?
27. 41:29Community: Yocto Project
28. 42:08Community: AOSP
29. 42:50Resourcing
30. 44:20Conclusion

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