I'm not clear on what you're trying to do. You're making a custom version of Ubuntu. Is it designed for PCs, or mobile devices? When up and running, this special Ubuntu will be able to build a live Android system? Like, a VM? So, you want to be able to run Android apps in special Ubuntu? Or did I get you all wrong?1, hello.
2, I am working on a derivative of Ubuntu that can build Android as a live system and is stripped to the point where it hobbles. It has buggies up the wahazoo that I still need to work out, and the Sourceforge project is a long, LONG way from being helpful in terms of information on how to use it. The dependencies listed at the official Android source page for Ubuntu 10.04 are installed and the JDK installed depends on the architecture. The GUI installed only supports opening a new terminal window, the only terminal installed is xterm, there's a console-based browser and a wireless manager with a curses interface, and I don't know if I weaseled out all of the branding that can be changed. I know perfectly well that the thing, as a whole, is terrible and should not be given to lovers of the GUI. However, *gasp wheeze DEEP BREATH* does ANYONE think it would be worth their time to try it out or suggest where to post links to the fledgling project?
(I'd link to the correct page, but the forum blocks me...)
I'm not clear on what you're trying to do. You're making a custom version of Ubuntu. Is it designed for PCs, or mobile devices? When up and running, this special Ubuntu will be able to build a live Android system? Like, a VM? So, you want to be able to run Android apps in special Ubuntu? Or did I get you all wrong?
So it's a PC tool to make building Android ROMs easier, right? How big is it (how much HD space is needed to install your special Ubuntu)?Um, well, when running, you can download the branch of the Android source you want (limited by whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit environment), build it, and then do what you like with the new ROM you just made. Part of the point of it is that Ubuntu is stripped to the barest minimum needed to operate correctly (networking, package management, little things in the terminal you'd miss but might forget if you didn't check first), then rebuilt with the packages listed as prerequisites for building Android (or anything else, really) and extras that you want for using the live system (such as a GUI of varying fancyness, additional tools/utilities, and the like), and the resulting live system will (usually with me) be smaller than what you started with. If someone convinces it to run on an Android device, I would probably faint from shock.
And, erm, no, it wouldn't be Android in a VM unless you told <i>lunch</i> you wanted the emulator version. Also, I have no idea how one would try running Android apps directly in Ubuntu. But that's me.
Now, holy bleurghy bleurgh time to see about squishing more of the problems in what I have...
So it's a PC tool to make building Android ROMs easier, right? How big is it (how much HD space is needed to install your special Ubuntu)?
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Looks all goodMission accomplished! May I politely ask to check if I missed something?
Sir, will be accomplished in course of the day!@Oswald Boelcke , or any other Senior Mod if you're quick enough , as you edited the OP of the old New User Guide perhaps a link to the new one could be added to the top of the OP there? There probably won't be too many people who come across that thread first but it's happened here at least
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