User:Lvillani/AndroidPDK

This document will guide you through the Android PDK (Product Development Kit) setup

Warning
The following instructions were tested only on Fedora 13 with latest stable updates (as of Aug 7, 2010)

Required packages

• Git >= 1.5.4
• gpg
• JDK 5.0, update 12 or higher (Java 6 not supported)
• GCC toolchain, flex, bison-devel, gperf, SDL-devel, esound-devel, wxGTK-devel, zip, curl.

Installation

Basic toolchain:

yum --setopt=group_package_types=mandatory groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Java 5 JDK:

yum install java-1.5.0-gcj java-1.5.0-gcj-devel

Remaining development packages:

yum install git SDL-devel esound-devel wxGTK-devel zip curl

Install the "repo" tool

The repo tool is used to pull from the plethora of git repositories making the android project.

Make sure you have "$HOME/.local/bin" in your PATH (and create that directory if not there already).

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo > ~/.local/bin/repo
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/repo

Initialize the development environment

Create a directory to hold your files:

mkdir android
cd android

Download updated repo's "manifest" files: (NOTE: They will be pointing to the post-release semi-stable experimental branch)

repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git

Now sync (download) all repositories with:

repo sync

Switching between different release branches (or "code-lines")

In your "android" directory there's an hidden directory called ".repo". This directory holds configuration for the "repo" tools and check-outs of various android projects as bare git repositories.

You will simply need to copy .repo/manifests/default.xml somewhere, edit it, update the .repo/manifest.xml symlink to point to the new file and then re-run "repo sync".