Android Internals

9 October 2012

Ken Jones, <[email protected]> Marakana, Inc.

To clone the repository:

git clone git://github.com/marakana/internals-2012-10-09.git

or

git clone http://github.com/marakana/internals-2012-10-09.git

or download a Zip archive by clicking the link above.

Useful Links

• Android Developer videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers

  • This includes videos from Google I/O 2012 and previous years

  • Be sure to check out the playlists

• Some specific Google I/O videos of interest:

  • For Butter of Worse: Smoothing Out Performance in Android UIs

  • Accelerated Android Rendering

  • New Low-Level Media APIs in Android

• A blog post providing more details on system property management: http://rxwen.blogspot.com/2010/01/android-property-system.html

• Integrating a Hardware Video Codec into Android Stagefright using OpenMAX IL, by Damian Hobson Garcia

  • Slides

  • Video

• A quick intro to using the new NDK plugin in Eclipse: http://tools.android.com/recent/usingthendkplugin

• Android Porting Guide (obsolete!): http://www.kandroid.org/online-pdk/guide/index.html

• Binder driver overview: http://lukejin.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/android%E4%B8%AD%E7%9A%84binder/

• Description of native Binder use: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24499613/Android-IPC-Binder

Screencasts

You can download the screencasts for the class using the following links:

Day 1

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day1-part1.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day1-part2.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day1-part3.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day1-part4.mov

Day 2

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day2-part1.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day2-part2.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day2-part3.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day2-part4.mov

Day 3

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day3-part1.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day3-part2.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day3-part3.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day3-part4.mov

Day 4

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day4-part1.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day4-part2.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day4-part3.mov

• http://marakana.com/external/video/2012-10-09-internals/day4-part4.mov