Android Crystal Gem

  1. Deploying and running AOSP on Windows with WSL2 -part 2

    Part 2 of this post is what to do with the created images from my AOSP build and how to run them on the Windows emulator. Adding disk space to WSL Now, while doing this, or later, you'll run out of disk space with AOSP, so instead of waiting for…
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  2. Building AOSP on Windows with WSL2 -part 1

    After the recent news about deprecating support of building AOSP on macOS, and hoping to not switch to Linux full-time for any kind of AOSP dev, I decided to give WSL2 a shot. Here it is! What is WSL? "The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux…
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  3. AOSP 8.1 failing to build on Mac High Sierra

    If you're trying to build AOSP on Mac High Sierra and getting this (or a similar error): [ 0% 35/75651] yacc out/soong/.intermediates/system/tools/aidl/libaidl-common/darwin_x86_64_static/gen/yacc/system/tools/aidl/aidl_language_y.cpp FAILED: out/soong/.intermediates/system/tools/aidl/libaidl-common/darwin_…
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  4. Will Android kill single activities in case it runs out of memory?

    I answered this question on Reddit, and I thought the answer might be interesting to document here as well (is there good documentation_of android lifetimes) is there good documentation of android lifetimes Meaning, let's say there's an OOM event (or Android needs to clean up RAM for another app)…
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  5. Opening AOSP with IntelliJ - part 3

    In this post, I'm going to continue with how to open AOSP and get IntelliJ support, Part 2 covered how to build AOSP, this part is how to open it in IntelliJ so you can navigate the codebase using a familiar editor similar to how you write apps. I tried…
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