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About Frans Gifford

Frans studied electronics and software engineering at Oxford, Swansea and Nantes. He worked on Microsoft solutions for public bodies in Paris and Ottawa before moving back to the UK where he worked on everything from the application layer right through the middleware to the kernel on J2ME, Linux, Symbian and most recently, Android. He has been involved in various Free Software projects since 2001 and a fellow of the FSFE since 2008, he is excited to be back to the community on a full-time basis.

Local LAVA testing of Android ICS

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

The Linaro Android team automatically test daily platform builds on our LAVA server[1], but what's less well known is that we can also run Android tests locally using lava-android-test[2]. I tried this out in order to debug a new benchmark … Continue reading →

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Installing F-Droid on Linaro builds

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

In a previous post, I wrote about using app markets with Linaro builds. One app market offering a selection of Free Software for Android is F-Droid[1]. Installation is fairly simple, but does require some configuration changes to get the most … Continue reading →

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Using App Markets with Linaro Android builds

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Software distribution on modern smartphones tends to be centralised in markets. Just as iPhone has iTunes, Android has the Android Market, but also allows other markets such as F-Droid. The Android Market application is not Free Software, and is only … Continue reading →

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Linaro Android Bot Review Achieves Deployment On Review.android.git.linaro.org

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

This week saw the first deployment of the Linaro Android Review Bot[1][2]. This further integrates our Gerrit[3] code review system[4] with our Jenkins[5] build system, and our LAVA[6] validation and test system. Changes approved by reviewers in Gerrit are now … Continue reading →

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