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ABS: The guts of Android

Posted May 5, 2011 4:02 UTC (Thu) by swetland (subscriber, #63414)
In reply to: ABS: The guts of Android by Hausvib6
Parent article: ABS: The guts of Android

You see some of the adoption of more typical open source development techniques among the Cyanogenmod folks, who host repo/git repositories, etc:
https://github.com/cyanogenmod
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#q,status:open,n,z

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Posted May 5, 2011 19:35 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

Now if they could just figure out package management, instead of this lovely "upgrade by unzipping a new filesystem on top of the old one" system... (Obviously this is far from trivial technically, since android doesn't come divided up into separately developed packages, but it would still be a huge improvement.)

ABS: The guts of Android

Posted May 5, 2011 19:39 UTC (Thu) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

Not directly in line with this but Magnus Back (Sony-Ericsson) gave a very good talk at the Android Builders Summit on how they've been using Debian packages to put together phones for all their customers (carriers) without having to rebuild everything from scratch for every single phone variant:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/android-builders...
This isn't exactly what you're requesting, but relevant still.