Category Archives: mobile

As with many people I’m using the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.10. This means that when you install the various pieces you need for android development the tools found in the platform-tools directory won’t run. They give the simple error … Continue reading →

Making changes to a large project isn’t an easy decision and for a company like Google I’d imagine that such decisions are debated extensively, so when such changes are made I assume they bring genuine benefit. Having recently started using … Continue reading →

Just over a year ago I wrote This is not the Android you want and as I’ve been spending time with android again I find it a little depressing how little progress has been made. Google have made their publishing … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been trying to trace some kernel debugging being generated on an android phone and the relative shortness of dmesg has been proving an issue. I figured there would be another way and of course there is… On a … Continue reading →

This is for a build in ~/work/android/system rather than the usually quoted ~/android/system. Start off in the usual way… sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib sudo apt-get install bison flex schedtool cd work mkdir bin curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > bin/repo chmod a+x bin/repo … Continue reading →