Android internals 00 - Introduction (rev_1.1)

Android internalsEgor ElizarovSPbSU 2012

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Lecture 0

Introduction

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http://vk.com/android_internalsRev: 1.1Last update: 05/30/2012

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Nice to meet you!

Egor Elizarov yegor.yelizarov(at)gmail.com

2nd course PhD student on Chair of Software engineering, SPbSU http://se.math.spbu.ru/SE/en

Maintainer of Rowboat project

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Android is everywhere

Mobile phones & Tablets

Set Top Boxes & TV's

Car & plane entertament systems

Even snowboard goggles

Source: reconinstruments.com

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Questions to be answered

What are the main features of mobile OS

What is Android

How does Android stack work

How do main Android systems look like

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How to build and customize Android

How does Android build system work

How to debug/profile Android

Questions to be answered (2)

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Why it may interesting

Understand architecture of modern mobile platform

Learn about popular OS

Few books, most documentation is closed

Get skills demanded on modern marketplace

Understand interaction between Android API and HW

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Organization moments

Who is going to come

When we will have lectures

Where we will have lectures

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Thank you for your time!

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Useful links

http://vk.com/android_internals

http://developer.anroid.com

http://android.com

http://arowboat.org

K. Yaghmour. Embedded Android. Early Release, O'Reilly, October 2011

http://www.slideshare.net/jserv/