All in one Android Development

Hi All,

I and @akhilnarang decided to post this guide to help anyone wanting to learn building of Roms and kernels. We will be using Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr here. You can find instructions to install it elsewhere, just remember rom building needs 64bit OS, minimum 4GB RAM, and 100GB space on HDD. Kernel can be built on less hardware, but will take long Make sure you have fast net, as you have to download at least 16GB of ROM sources, or more kernel, only 1GB of sources max. Be prepared to spend a lot of time downloading, learning, and fixing bugs :D

More RAM, or faster CPU, or SSD will speed up the process. From our personal experiences we have found that this is the best, stable, up-to-date version of Ubuntu yet. This has come from my trial and errors, searching all over the web, and bits I picked up from here and there.

We will move Rom building part when we completed this step properly. Step by step we will learn compiling kernel, using Github, Gerrit, Cherry-picking. At the end of the post I have linked a script by @akhilnarang which if run will automatically install all these programs for lazy people like us haha :emoji14: If you not interested to do all procedure from below just use the script. Simply it will automatically configure the build environment.

NOTE: Some of these packages may already be on your machine. Obviously, if you complete a step and you have one of these installed, the machine simply will not do anything. So it will not hurt anything. Some of the packages are different from Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04 (use these packages for Ubuntu 14.04 as many of the old ones have obsoleted - these are new replacements).

So if you set up your pc with Ubuntu we are good to go. All code will be in code boxes like this: