# NOTE NOTE NOTE # This is a very rough shell script file. Untested, and not intended to run in a single run. Just tells chronological order of necessary commands to compile Android OS on an Arch Linux system. # Ref: https://gist.github.com/ssz66666/8422d46eae83ce7240f5547d129bf29c # Ref: https://github.com/anbox/anbox/blob/master/docs/build-android.md ################## # Required: aosp-devel packages # https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aosp-devel/ WORKDIR="${PWD}/aosp" rm -rf ${WORKDIR}/out/* ln -s /usr/bin/python2 ./python export PATH=$PWD:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl cd ${WORKDIR} # This takes A LOT of time, since ~280GiB must be downloaded. # Full Android source code with all commit histories etc. This is not a shallow copy. # TODO this manifest file contains old Android version tag. Should be replaced with android-9.0.0_r57 or newer # For available versions, see i.e.: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support repo init -u https://github.com/anbox/platform_manifests.git -b anbox repo sync -j6 sudo pacman -S repo # Check all deps of AUR pkg aosp-devel are installed (/home/fincer/ssd/arch_linux_programs/aosp-devel) cd /media/a2ee7134-4f0e-4aa7-a12e-ee2b949fbb0b/ # Not merged, as of 6th June 2020 # Audio timing fix: # https://github.com/anbox/anbox/pull/1034 cp -f ./patch_audio01_timing.patch aosp/vendor/patch_audio01_timing.patch cp -f ./patch_audio02_pass-messenger.patch aosp/vendor/patch_audio02_pass-messenger.patch cp -f ./patch_initcgroups.patch aosp/patch_initcgroups.patch # Disable foreground/background activity checks and functionality of built-in Gallery apps for Desktop use # Comment onPause and onResume functions and related parts # This helps when using multiple apps simultaneosly and playing a video/music track. Originally, # playback pauses which is not a wanted feature in desktop Android. In this patch, we disable all relevant code # parts which cause this pause. cp -f ./patch_gallery2_no-activity-checks.patch aosp/patch_gallery2_no-activity-checks.patch cd ${WORKDIR}/vendor/anbox patch -Np1 -i ../patch_audio01_timing.patch patch -Np1 -i ../patch_audio02_pass-messenger.patch cd ${WORKDIR} # We don't have several cgroups in native Linux. Avoid unnecessary kernel errors. # Disabled 'schedtune' cgroup as it targets Android ARM devices. Reason for it is to # add more efficient CPU usage. However, native Linux kernel does not populate # cgroup subsystem 'schedtune', and we see complaints about that in dmesg output. # This image has modified /init.rc file with commented out lines related to schedtune # Additional cgroups have been also commented out in the same file to avoid kernel complaints # 'Need name or subsystem set' patch -Np1 -i ./patch_initcgroups.patch # Already merged, as of 6th June 2020 # Server side decoration fix: # https://github.com/anbox/anbox/pull/1415 #ln -s patch_serversidedecoration.patch aosp/vendor/patch_serversidedecoration.patch patch -Np1 -i ./patch_gallery2_no-activity-checks.patch archlinux-java set java-8-openjdk cd ${WORKDIR}/ . build/envsetup.sh lunch anbox_x86_64-userdebug export ANDROID_JACK_VM_ARGS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:+TieredCompilation -Xmx2G" # RUN THIS IN SEPARATE SHELL! # Jack server must be run during compilation process while true; do sleep 2 if [ -f aosp/out/host/linux-x86/bin/jack-admin ]; then aosp/out/host/linux-x86/bin/jack-admin start-server break fi done LC_ALL=C make -j$(nproc --ignore 1) # Takes ~3 hours to compile with 11 CPU cores if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then rm -f $HOME/.jack-settings rm -rf $HOME/.jack-server fi cd $WORKDIR/vendor/anbox/ scripts/create-package.sh ${PWD}/../../out/target/product/x86_64/ramdisk.img ${PWD}/../../out/target/product/x86_64/system.img # Image will locate at aosp/vendor/anbox/android.img # To compile a single element (e.g. a modified system app), use the following (example) # cd aosp # source build/envsetup.sh # mmma packages/apps/Gallery2/ # For more information: # https://elinux.org/Android_Build_System # ---------- # Copy all parts from aosp/out/target/product/x86_64/system/ into unsquashed android.img using rsync # Correct ownership of the copied files (chown ...) and squash the files into a new android.img file # Stop Anbox container & session managers by issuing # sudo systemctl stop anbox-container-manager (stops user session manager automatically) # Copy the new image file into /var/lib/anbox/android.img # Restart Anbox container & session managers by issuing # sudo systemctl start anbox-container-manager.service && sleep 3 && systemctl --user start anbox-session-manager