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    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi

    Android Pie meets Raspberry Pi

    Chris Simmonds

    FOSDEM 2019

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 1 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    License

    These slides are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. You can read the full
    text of the license here
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    You are free to

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    under a license identical to this one (i.e. include this page exactly as it is)

    • For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 2 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    About Chris Simmonds
    • Consultant and trainer
    • Author of Mastering Embedded Linux Programming
    • Working with embedded Linux since 1999
    • Android since 2009
    • Speaker at many conferences and workshops

    "Looking after the Inner Penguin" blog at http://2net.co.uk/

    @2net_software

    https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisdsimmonds/

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 3 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Why?

    • Porting Android to a dev board is a great way to learn about Android


    • It’s a good testing ground for new ideas
    • It’s fun! No, really it is!

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 4 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    What do you need to run Android?

    • Hardware from one of the supported architectures


    • ARM, x86 or MIPS, in 32 or 64 bit varieties

    • Has a recent version of Linux kernel (v4.4 or later)


    • At least 512 MiB RAM
    • At least 1 GiB flash storage - e.g. eMMC, SD card
    • Touchscreen or external display - e.g. HDMI
    • GPU with OpenGL ES 2.0 libraries (more about this later)

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 5 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Android on dev boards

    DragonBoard, Hikey, BeagleBone, WandBoard, Raspberry Pi, Digi ConnectCore ...

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 6 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Why Raspberry Pi?

    • It’s cheap
    • Easy to get hold of
    • Hackable
    • Because it is there

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 7 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Hasn’t it been done already?
    Sure! Here are some notable projects
    • Android RPi: https://github.com/android-rpi
    • LineageOS: (unofficial build from KonstaKang)
    https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi3/LineageOS15.1
    • RTAndroid: https://embedded.rwth-aachen.de/doku.php?id=en:
    tools:rtandroid
    • based on research by Igor Kalkov, now merged into emteria.os

    • emteria.os: https://emteria.com (not open source)


    • Android Things:
    https://developer.android.com/things/hardware/raspberrypi
    (not open source)
    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 8 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd
    What do you need?

    • A copy of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)


    • A Linux kernel with Android extensions
    • A fair knowledge of the hardware
    • All the help you can get from existing projects
    • A fairly fast computer
    • Time and patience

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 9 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    AOSP and RPi

    • What follows is based on Konsta’s port of LineageOS


    • My version of the code is at
    https://github.com/csimmonds/a4rpi-local-manifest
    • Challenges posed by the Raspberry Pi
    • Graphics

    • Lack of USB OTG port

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 10 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Graphics: OpenGL

    • We need OpenGL ES 2.0 libraries with Android extensions


    • Three options
    • Get a copy of the OpenGLES binaries from the vendor, if they exist (they
    don’t for Broadcom BCM2708/2835)
    • Use Soft GPU, Swiftshader

    • Use Mesa and drm_hwcomposer

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 11 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Graphics: Swiftshader
    App 3-D graphics HWUI Surface Flinger
    android.opengl.* 2-D graphics

    libEGL.so
    Framework OpenGLES libGLESv1_cm.so
    libGLESv2.so

    SwiftShader libEGL_swiftshader.so
    HAL libGLESv1_CM_swiftshader.so
    OpenGLES libGLESv2_swiftshader.so

    FBDEV
    Kernel

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 12 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Graphics: Mesa3d
    App 3-D graphics HWUI Surface Flinger
    android.opengl.* 2-D graphics

    libEGL.so
    Framework OpenGLES libGLESv1_cm.so
    libGLESv2.so

    mesa libEGL_mesa.so
    HAL libGLESv1_CM_mesa.so
    OpenGLES libGLESv2_mesa.so

    drm_hwcomposer gralloc

    libdrm

    DRM
    Kernel VC4

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 13 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    ADB
    • Raspberry Pi only has USB host ports, but ADB needs a USB
    peripheral port
    • Usually provided by a dual mode USB "On The Go" (OTG) port

    • (Actually, the BCM283x has OTG hardware but it is used internally to


    bridge the USB host controller, Ethernet, and so on)
    • But, we can use ADB over Ethernet instead
    $ adb connect Android.local
    connected to Android.local:5555
    $
    $ adb shell
    rpi3:/ #

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 14 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Current status

    • Code for Android for


    Raspberry Pi is at https:
    //github.com/csimmonds/
    a4rpi-local-manifest
    • Android Pie 9.0 r 30
    • Using Swiftshader
    • Early stages: still many things to
    do

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 15 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Delving deeper

    • If you would like to discover more about building Android platforms,


    visit http://www.2net.co.uk/training.html and enquire about
    training classes for your company
    • 2net training is available world-wide

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 16 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd


    Relevant links:
    Android 4 RPi
    https://github.com/csimmonds/a4rpi-local-manifest

    My web site
    http://www.2net.co.uk

    Any questions?

    Running Android on the Raspberry Pi 17 Copyright © 2011-2019, 2net Ltd

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