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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 14 to Dec. 20
As you may have already heard, some great things are coming out of Linaro this week. Hardware accellerated graphics in Linaro Evaluation Builds! Incredible. My awesome collegues in Linaro worked together with member companies and communities in a focused effort, … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 06 to Dec. 13
It’s getting real close to the 11.12 release now. We are all putting in a little extra effort. Hardware acceleration will make a huge difference to our platform, and it is happening right now on two of our boards. The … Continue reading
Improving Performance of Linaro Android Build Service
Linaro Android Build Service (please bear with SSL issues – it is still officially in beta) is a place where you can get any downloads related to Linaro Android – monthly releases, daily builds for specific boards, and engineers’ personal … Continue reading
Local LAVA testing of Android ICS
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
Installing F-Droid on Linaro builds
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
Using App Markets with Linaro Android builds
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
The Second Android 11.10 Pre-Release is Out!
The second Android pre-release is done and has been tested. Overview Each build is based on Android 2.3.5 and has been compiled with Linaro’s 11.10 GCC 4.6 release, with -O3 and strict-aliasing turned on. Tracking builds are based on “Androidized” … Continue reading
Linaro Android Bot Review Achieves Deployment On Review.android.git.linaro.org
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
Bored? Try Angry Birds Rio on the Panda board!
Angry Birds Rio runs on the first 11.10 Panda staging build! For these instructions, you need a PC running Ubuntu 11.04 or later. You also need to get the Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/ and install it. Also download the apk … Continue reading
Video – Zach Pfeffer: Android platform development
Linaro Connect, Cambridge, UK, August 2011. Zach Pfeffer, Linaro Android Working Group tech lead, gives an introduction to making Android work on a new hardware platform. He starts by giving details about Android, its implementation, and how source code is … Continue reading