[FE training-materials-updates] Add the Android Agenda
Maxime Ripard
maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 18 17:13:10 CEST 2013
Repository : git://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials.git
On branch : jelly-bean
Link : http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/commit/?id=39ed70e8e43d1d7af28f1d49e01dcb33e9edb9cd
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commit 39ed70e8e43d1d7af28f1d49e01dcb33e9edb9cd
Author: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
Date: Fri Oct 18 15:06:13 2013 +0200
Add the Android Agenda
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
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+\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,obeyspaces,spaces,hyphens]{article}
+
+\usepackage{agenda}
+\usepackage{colortbl}
+\usepackage{xcolor}
+\usepackage{palatino}
+\usepackage{calc}
+
+\hypersetup{pdftitle={Android System Development Training},
+ pdfauthor={Free Electrons}}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\thispagestyle{fancy}
+
+\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{0.8pt}
+
+\begin{center}
+\LARGE
+Android System Development Training\\
+\large
+4 days session
+\end{center}
+\vspace{1cm}
+
+\small
+\newcolumntype{g}{>{\columncolor{fedarkblue}}m{4cm}}
+\newcolumntype{h}{>{\columncolor{felightblue}}X}
+
+\arrayrulecolor{lightgray} {
+ \setlist[1]{itemsep=-5pt}
+ \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|g|h|}
+ {\bf Title} & Android System Development Training\\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Overview} &
+ Understanding the Android Internals \par
+ Understanding the Android Build System \par
+ Customizing Android for a specific hardware \par
+ Extending the Android framework \par
+ Practical labs with the ARM-based BeagleBone Black.\\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Duration} & {\bf Four} days - 32 hours (8 hours per day).
+ \newline 50\% of lectures, 50\% of practical labs. \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Trainer} & One of the engineers listed on
+ \newline \url{http://free-electrons.com/training/trainers/}\\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Language} & Oral lectures: English or French.
+ \newline Materials: English.\\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Audience} & Engineers porting Android to new boards
+ \newline Engineers developing products with Android \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Prerequisites} & \vspace{-0.7cm}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Knowledge and practice of Unix or GNU/Linux commands}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item People lacking experience on this topic should get trained
+ by themselves with our freely available on-line slides
+ (\url{http://free-electrons.com/docs/command-line/})
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Knowledge and practice of C programming}
+ \item {\bf Basics of Java programming}
+ \end{itemize} \vspace{-0.7cm} \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Required equipment} & \vspace{-0.7cm}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Video projector
+ \item PC computers with at least 4 GB of RAM, a CPU at least
+ equivalent to an Intel Core i5 and Ubuntu Linux installed in a
+ {\bf free partition of at least 50 GB. Using Linux in a virtual
+ machine is not supported}, because of issues connecting to
+ real hardware.
+ \item We need Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 (64 bit, Xubuntu and Kubuntu
+ variants are fine). We don't support other distributions,
+ because we can't test all possible package versions.
+ \item {\bf High Speed Connection to the Internet} (direct or
+ through the company proxy), fast enough to download the several
+ gigabytes of Android source code.
+ \item {\bf PC computers with valuable data must be backed up}
+ before being used in our sessions. Some people have already made
+ mistakes during our sessions and damaged work data.
+ \end{itemize} \vspace{-0.7cm} \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Materials} & Print and electronic copies of presentations and
+ labs.
+ \newline Electronic copy of lab files.\\
+ \hline
+
+\end{tabularx}}
+\normalsize
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Hardware}
+{
+ The hardware platform used for the practical labs of this training
+ session is a {\bf BeagleBone Black}, which features:
+
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item An ARM AM335x processor from Texas Instruments (Cortex-A8
+ based), 3D acceleration, etc.
+ \item 512 MB of RAM
+ \item 2 GB of on-board eMMC storage
+ \item USB host and device
+ \item HDMI output
+ \item 2 x 46 pins headers, to access UARTs, SPI busses, I2C busses
+ and more.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{}
+{
+ \begin{center}
+ \includegraphics[height=5cm]{agenda/beagleboneblack.png}
+ \end{center}
+}
+
+\section{Part 1 - Compiling and booting Android}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Introduction to Android}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item History
+ \item Actors involved
+ \item Introduction to the Android architecture
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Setup}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Install the tools required to compile
+ \item Fetch the source code (\textit{If the network bandwidth is not
+ sufficient, we will provide a ready-to-use source code archive})
+ \item Get used to Android specific tools
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Android Source Code and Compilation}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item How to use git, repo and gerrit to access sources
+ \item How to find one's way in the code base
+ \item How to compile Android (tools, targets, etc.)
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - First Compilation}
+{
+ {\em Using the Android Emulator}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Compile a first root filesystem for the emulator
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Introduction to the Linux kernel}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Role and general architecture of the kernel
+ \item Kernel features
+ \item Understanding the development process.
+ \item Legal constraints with device drivers.
+ \item Kernel user interface (/proc and /sys)
+ \item Kernel configuration.
+ \item Native and cross-compilation. Generated files.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Compile and Boot an Android Kernel}
+{
+ {\em Using the Android Emulator}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Compile and Boot an Android Kernel
+ \item Extract the patches from the Android Kernel
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+\\
+\section{Part 2 - Porting Android to a New Board}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lecture - Changes introduced in the Android Kernel}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Major functional changes introduced by Google
+ \item Additions to the kernel
+ \item Mainline kernel status of these patches
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Android Bootloaders}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item What is a bootloader
+ \item Bootloader examples
+ \item The fastboot specifications from Android.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Supporting a board}
+{
+ {\em Using the BeagleBoneBlack}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Use the Android's build for the BeagleBone Black
+ \item Boot Android on a real board
+ \item Troubleshoot the glitches on the board
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\section{Part 3 - Device Development with Android}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture – Developing and debugging with ADB}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Presentation of ADB
+ \item Available commands: transfer files,
+ install packages, executing remote commands, log access,
+ networking... all this done from the development machine.
+ \item Examples of commands and combinations useful to debug
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab – Use ADB}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Learn how to get the system log, to gain access to a shell on
+ the device, push and pull files, etc.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lecture – Android filesystem layout}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Know where the various software components are installed and
+ mounted, and why it matters.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture – Android build system}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Concepts introduced in the build system
+ \item Architecture of the Makefiles
+ \item Variables and functions available
+ \item Compilation steps
+ \item Add a new device to the build system
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab – Add a native library to the build}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Create an external library to control a USB rocket launcher.
+ \item Add this library to the default Android build
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lab - System customization}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Add a device to the build system
+ \item Customize the “About†info, build ID, boot and home screens in
+ your system.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture – Android Native Layer}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Discover the daemons handling the radio, external storage,
+ launching applications, etc.
+ \item Get to know the different components involved in the Android
+ runtime, from the virtual machine to the media framework:
+ StageFright, Flingers, Dalvik...
+ \item Learn how hardware abstraction is done in Android
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab – Add a native binary to the build}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Get to know the build system and the C library (Bionic)
+ specifics.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture – Android Framework and Applications}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Overview of the services, Content Providers and available
+ applications in a standard Android build
+ \item Structure of a Service / Content Provider
+ \item How to access a native library from a Java app
+ using the Java Native Interface (JNI)
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab – Develop the Java interface to the native library}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Implement a Java interface to use the previously integrated
+ library
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture – Android Application Development}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item The application lifecycle
+ \item The various application components
+ \item How to access services
+ \item How to use, access and manage the resources
+ \item How apk packages are built and what do they contain
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab – Write an app with the SDK}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Learn how to write and distribute an application using the
+ Android SDK and its API.
+ \item Practical case: write an Android application controlling the
+ USB rocket launcher.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\end{document}
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