1: INTRODUCTION TO ANDROID SYSTEM PROGRAMMING
What is system programming?
What is the scope of this book?
Overview of the Android system
The third-party open source projects derived from AOSP
Strategy of integration
Virtual hardware reference platforms
Summary

2: SETTING UP THE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
Summary of Android versions
Installing Android SDK and setting up an Android Virtual Device
The AOSP build environment and the Android emulator build
Creating your own repository mirror
Summary

3: DISCOVERING KERNEL, HAL, AND VIRTUAL HARDWARE
What is inside the AOSP?
Android emulator HAL
Android emulator kernel and hardware
Summary

4: CUSTOMIZING THE ANDROID EMULATOR
Why customize the Android emulator
Understanding build layers
Build variants
Creating a new x86emu device
Building and testing x86emu
Summary

5: ENABLING THE ARM TRANSLATOR AND INTRODUCING NATIVE BRIDGE
Introducing Native Bridge
Integrating Houdini to the x86emu device
Building and testing
Summary

6: DEBUGGING THE BOOT UP PROCESS USING A CUSTOMIZED RAMDISK
Analyzing the Android start up process
Source code and manifest changes
The Android-x86 start up process
Building x86emu with initrd.img
Creating a filesystem image
Kernel changes
Booting a disk image on the Android emulator
Summary

7: ENABLING WI-FI ON THE ANDROID EMULATOR
Wi-Fi on Android
Adding Wi-Fi to the emulator
Building the source code
Testing Wi-Fi on an emulator
Summary

8: CREATING YOUR OWN DEVICE ON VIRTUALBOX
HAL of x86vbox
Creating a new x86vbox device
Boot up process and device initialization
Summary

9: BOOTING UP X86VBOX USING PXE/NFS
Setting up a PXE boot environment
Configuring and testing the PXE boot
NFS filesystem
Configuring the PXE boot menu
Summary

10: ENABLING GRAPHICS
Introduction to the Android graphics architecture
Delving into graphics HAL
Graphics HAL of the Android emulator
Summary

11: ENABLING VIRTUALBOX-SPECIFIC HARDWARE INTERFACES
OpenGL ES and graphics hardware initialization
Integrating VirtualBox Guest Additions
Summary

12: INTRODUCING RECOVERY
Recovery introduction
Analyzing recovery
Building recovery for x86vbox
Summary

13: CREATING OTA PACKAGES
What is inside an OTA package
Preparing an OTA package for x86vbox
Removing dependencies on /system
Building and testing
Summary

14: CUSTOMIZING AND DEBUGGING RECOVERY
Debugging and testing native Android applications
Extending recovery and the updater
Supporting the third-party recovery packages
Summary