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Here are some development tools useful for working with Android

Android SDK

adb

• Fastboot - Android Fastboot is a tool to boot and manipulate the partitions on an Android development phone.
• toolchains -
• logging system -
• Emulator - See http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html

The emulator is a version of QEMU, which mimics the instruction set of an ARM processor, and the hardware that one might find on a mobile phone. The emulator runs on an x86 system, but executes an ARM linux kernel and programs. The flow of control is:

• • application ->
  • dalvik VM ->
  • C/C++ libraries ->
  • ARM linux kernel ->
  • emulated instructions and hardware (QEMU)->
  • C libraries->
  • x86 kernel ->
  • real hardware

other tools

• agcc - A wrapper tool for compiling native Android apps (linked directly to bionic)
  • See http://android-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/02/hello-world-c-program-on-using-android.html
• bootchart
• smem
• strace
  • Statically linked binary available at: http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/18/android-runtime-strace
  • Instructions for building Android strace - http://discuz-android.blogspot.com/2008/01/create-google-android-strace-tool.html

Eclipse

Hardware

Serial Cable for G1

You can build a serial cable to use with the G1, which is helpful to see kernel boot messages on the serial console.

See http://www.instructables.com/id/Android_G1_Serial_Cable

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