Building and Installing Android AOSP

In these notes, I will document few things:

1) Building newest AOSP for the HiKey SBC

2) Installing new image in Android Studio Emulator

3) Installing Android Pie preview of Android "Tiamen" (a Siberian fish, the picture is shown below) on Pixel 2 XL.

General Info about the AOSP

read general info:

https://source.android.com/setup/

Preview Images

https://developer.android.com/preview/download.html#images

Android P (pie) image:
taimen-ppp1.180208.014-factory-8e44f67a.zip 

Emulator running preview:

https://developer.android.com/preview/setup-sdk.html#run-emulator

Factory Images

https://developers.google.com/android/images#instructions

Android Oreo image 8.1.0 (OPM1.171019.021, Mar 2018):

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/taimen-opm1.171019.021-factory-55f528f1.zip

Hikey960 binaries for Android 8.0.0 (20171017) ARM:

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/arm-hikey960-OPR-cf4e0c80.tgz

Hardware specific Binaries

Pixel 2 XL binaries for Android 8.1.0 (OPM1.171019.021)

Google (Vendor Image):

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/google_devices-taimen-opm1.171019.021-66c50345.tgz

Qualcomm (GPS, Audio, Camera, Gestures, Graphics, DRM, Video, Sensors)

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/qcom-taimen-opm1.171019.021-acc83ef7.tgz

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/google_devices-taimen-opm1.171019.021-66c50345.tgz

AOSP building

https://source.android.com/setup/building

Reference AOSP Development Boards (e.g. HiKey)

https://source.android.com/setup/devices

Kernel:
$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/hikey-linaro android-hikey-linaro