Build Android 11 for SECO boards

Building a custom Android 11 for SECO board is a really simple operation.

Requirements:

• a power PC HOST with Linux OS system (Ubuntu, Debian, ARCH Linux are valid options);

• a docker environment installed and running;

• a configured git and repo environment;

• 250 GB of free space on HD;

If you are in hurry:

• For i.MX platform download this preconfigured script: android_build.sh and run it on your Linux PC HOST:

  • ./android_build.sh <BOARD_CODE> # Where <BOARD_CODE> can be “C61”, C43”

    • [For example: ./android_build.sh C43 ]

• You will find the results of the build process in the folder ANDROID_11/Distros/:

  • ls -lh ANDROID_11/Distros/

Detailed procedure:

• Configure git:

  • git config --global user.name "Your Name"

  • git config --global user.email "your.name@example.com"

• Init and download Android 11 repository:

  • mkdir ANDROID_11

  • cd ANDROID_11

  • repo init -u https://git.seco.com/pub/i.mx/android/android_11.0.0/android_11.0.0_1.0.0.git

  • repo sync -j 20

• Run SECO docker for Android build:

  • docker run --rm -it \
        --privileged \
        --volume="/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro" \
        --volume="/etc/group:/etc/group:ro" \
        --volume="/etc/shadow:/etc/shadow:ro"  \
        --volume $PWD:/workdir \
        -v ~/.bash_history:${HOME}/.bash_history:rw \
        -v ~/.vimrc:${HOME}/.vimrc:rw \
        -v ~/.vim:${HOME}/.vim:rw \
        -v ~/.cache:${HOME}/.cache:rw \
        -e BOARDCODE=${boardcode} \
        --workdir="/workdir" \
        --user $(id -u "$(stat -c "%U" Android.bp)"):$(id -g) \
        secodocker/android-builder:latest

• Setup Android environment and run the build commands:

  • source setup<BOARD_CODE> # Where <BOARD_CODE> can be “C61”, C43”, “C20”, etc [For example: source setupC61]

  • seco-imx-make.sh -j20 bootloader

  • seco-imx-make.sh -j20 bootimage

  • make -j20

• Wait until the end of the compilation process (build process can lasts 1 or more hours according to the speed of your system)

• You can produce a tar.gz archive to be used for installation running the following script:

  • prepare_distro.sh [<IMAGE_NAME>] # Where [<IMAGE_NAME>] is an optional text string for naming the image file (default to “Android_11_<BOARD_CODE>_Distro_<DATE>.tar.gz”)

Ready for installation:

Refer to Install Android 11 on SECO boards for the installation procedure.