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ofskyMohsen
ofskyMohsen

Reputation: 1211

Questions about some projects in android source

I am new in android open source project(AOSP) . I want to know about some of its projects : Anyone can describe these projects and what is its role in android OS?

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Zbigniew Mazur
Zbigniew Mazur

Reputation: 721

libcore - android device runtime java environment

PDK - platfrom developer kit

bootable/recovery - recovery partition program

bootable/bootloader/ - bootloader partition program (including fastboot device driver ie. u-boot on TI or IMX platforms or aboot on MSM/APQ)

device - device vendor additional mk files and overlay files External - a set of any 3rd party libs and programs (it's mainly open source projects)

framework - android framework implementation. This code is what android apps calls. This where all services and their libs are.

hardware - hardware modules defined by android and implemented by device/hardware provider (people like Qcom, TI, NXP, Nvidia etc...)

vendors - HAL layer code for many hardware

prebuilts - gcc and other binary tools (excluding java sdk) you use to compile that version of android you have downloaded/"repo sync'ed"

system - initd daemon and base system C libraries

bionic - android version of standard c library and runtime loader and linker code.

Upvotes: 1

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