Linaro Connect Q4.11 - Using and contributing to Linaro Android
Channel: LinaroOrg
Date: 2011-11-04

Orlando, Florida, Nov. 3, 2011

At the Q4.11 edition of Linaro Connect, I followed a very interesting tutorial by Zach Pfeffer, the tech lead of the Linaro Android working group. 

During this tutorial, Zach showed how to download a recent build for a Linaro supported board (the Panda board in this case), how to build an SD card image using the linaro-android-media-create command, and eventually how to boot the board with it.

Zach went on by showing how he compiled and ran an Android application on his board, using the Eclipse SDK for Android.

The last part was getting the repo script, and using it to retrieve Linaro and AOSP sources, before compiling an Android image from source.

This is a great tutorial to get started with Android on the boards supported by Linaro. I strongly recommend it.