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Inside the Android OS: Building, Customizing, Managing and Operating Android System Services
- By G. Blake Meike, Lawrence Schiefer
- Published Jun 15, 2021 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Android Deep Dive series.
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About
Features
- A well-thought-out, start-to-finish approach to building Android into other products -- the first guide to serve the fast-growing market of engineers and software developers doing just that
- Unprecedented coverage of remote procedure calls, AIDL, and related security issues: crucial information for embedded Android
- Illuminates Androids underexploited Services capabilities, including both architecture and implementation
- All code downloadable from companion GitHub site
- By one of the fields most respected experts, G. Blake Meike
Description
- Copyright 2021
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-409634-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-409634-6
Inside the Android OS is the first comprehensive guide and reference for developers who want to customize and integrate Android into their own embedded devices. Replete with code examples, it encourages you to create your own working code versions as you read -- whether for your own personal insight or for a workplace project in the fast-growing marketplace for non-phone Android devices.
G. Blake Meike responds to the real-world needs of embedded and IoT developers moving to Android, providing indispensable information without becoming obscure or too specialized. Meike teaches through a book-length project that covers everything developers need to know to create their own custom Android service. You’ll find approachable yet precise coverage of:
- Why Android is becoming a pervasive embedded platform
- Using Android’s four-tier architectural model in embedded devices
- Setting up a build platform, downloading the AOSP source, and building an Android image
- Walking through system startup on a running Android system
- Running native services on embedded systems
- Using Android’s Native Development Kit (NDK) and HAL to link interpreted Java with native C/C++ code
- Taking a deep dive into the seminal Zygote application and its Dalvik interpreter
- Quickly building Java system services
- Working with Binder, Android’s heart and the root of its security and access control models
- Establishing permissions and access control
- Enabling apps to use the services you’ve created
- Building SDKs that allow third-party developers to code for your device
- And much more
If you’re a software professional who wants to construct or maintain a successful Android-based product, this is the book you’ve been searching for.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
- 1. Customizing Android
- 2. Building AOSP
- 3. System Startup
- 4. Running a Native Service
- 5. Getting to Java
- 6. Android Startup
- 7. Building a Java System Service
- 8. Binder and IPC
- 9. Permissions and Access Control
- 10. Letting Apps use Your Service
- 11. Putting a Bow on It