DART-SD410 Android Host Install

Host requirements installation.

This WIKI describes the Host installation process for working with DART-SD410 platform

Host (PC) setup requirements

The host development environment for Android is based on Ubuntu, please install Ubuntu version 14.04 64bit LTS http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop At least 60GByte free space.

IMPORTANT

Do not use other Ubuntu releases, other than recommended above.

For 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04

The complete Android host requirments:  source.android.com/source/initializing.html Also you can refer to Software Build and Installation Guide, Linux Android.

The following command installs repo:

First:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

In addition to the packages requested on the Android website, the following packages are also needed:

Installing the OpenJDK

The master branch of Android in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) requires Java 7. On Ubuntu, use OpenJDK. Be aware that you must use OpenJDK opposed to previous versions that used SUN Java.

Java 7: For the latest version of Android

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Optionally, update the default Java version by running:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config java
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javac

Install fastboot and ADB

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Install GIT

Please provide correct credentials during git initialization.

$ sudo apt-get install git
$ git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"