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Create Tastitalia Android 12 authored Aug 28, 2023 by Stefano Radaelli's avatar Stefano Radaelli
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# TASTITALIA BSP ANDROID
## Getting Started
This repository contains a manifest file to clone all the open-source repository needed for Android.
In order to complete the build environment with the proprietary repositories, repo will also download a proprietary tar.gz file protected by a passphrase.
Please contact Tastitalia to obtain the passphrase.
Follow the steps below to download and build the Android 12 release.
## Download and Build Tastitalia Android 12 Release
### Setting up your PC
To build Tastitalia Android 12, use a computer running Linux OS.
We used Ubuntu 20.04 to build Android, other distributions may work but have not been tested.
Check whether all the necessary packages are installed for an Android build.
See “Establishing a Build Environment” on the [Android website](https://source.android.com/setup/build/initializing).
In addition to the packages requested on the Android website, the following packages are also needed:
```bash
$: sudo apt-get install uuid uuid-dev zlib1g-dev liblz-dev liblzo2-2 liblzo2-dev lzop \
git curl u-boot-tools mtd-utils \
android-sdk-libsparse-utils android-sdk-ext4-utils \
device-tree-compiler gdisk m4 zlib1g-dev \
bison flex make libssl-dev gcc-multilib
```
To access the BSP, you need to have the repo utility installed, and gpg to decrypt the tar.gz proprietary file.
Install the repo utility:
```bash
$: mkdir ~/bin
$: curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$: export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin
```
Install gpg:
```bash
$: sudo apt install -y gnupg
```
### Download and prepare Tastitalia Android 12
Follow these steps to download and prepare your environment with all the Android 12 source files:
```bash
$: mkdir android_build
$: cd android_build
$: repo init -u https://gitlab.tastitalia.local/tastitalia-mpu-arm/android/tastitalia-bsp-android.git -b imx-android-12 -m tastitalia-imx-android-12.0.0_1.0.0.xml
$: repo sync -j32
#### Choose -j variable according to the number of cores in your PC
#### Take a coffee
```
Now, follow these steps to extract and prepare the proprietary source code.
To decrypt tar.gz file using GUI passphrase prompt:
```bash
$: gpg --output tastitalia-imx-android-12.0.0_1.0.0.tar.gz --decrypt tastitalia-imx-android-12.0.0_1.0.0.tar.gz.gpg
```
Alternatively, if you want to insert passphrase directly in bash:
```bash
$: gpg --batch --passphrase 'PASSHPRASE' --output tastitalia-imx-android-12.0.0_1.0.0.tar.gz --decrypt tastitalia-imx-android-12.0.0_1.0.0.tar.gz.gpg
#### Change PASSHPRASE with the real passphrase shared with you by Tastitalia
```
To extract tar.gz and finish setting up source code:
```bash
$: tar xzf tastitalia-imx-android-12.0.0_1.0.0.tar.gz
$: source tastitalia-imx-android-12.0.0_1.0.0/tastitalia-imx_android_setup.sh
```
After these steps, all Android 12 source codes are downloaded and ready to be built.
### Set up and build Android 12
To set up your build environment, Tastitalia prepared a script file for every board.
Find the appropriate setup file following our [Naming Convention](#tastitalia-naming-convention).
* Example: **setup_tasd8mp_2g_7.sh**.
This script is needed to export arm64 cross compile GCC, set up android environment and prepare it for a userdebug build mode.
Feel free to change userdebug mode to any other mode, according to Android documentation:
| Build Mode | Description |
|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| userdebug | This build mode is suitable for developers and testers. It includes debugging capabilities and additional logging. |
| user | This build mode is optimized for regular users. It excludes debugging features and reduces logging for better performance. |
| eng | This build mode, short for "engineering," includes advanced debugging and profiling tools. It is primarily for developers and platform engineers. |
After that, you will be able to lunch the Android 12 build script:
Example:
```bash
$: source setup_tasd8mm_2g_7.sh
$: ./imx-make.sh -j32 2>&1 | tee build-log.txt
#### Choose -j variable according to the number of cores in your PC
#### Take a very long coffee
```
After following these steps, Android will be built, and a **build-log.txt** file containing all the build information will be created.
Please refer to the next section for instructions on flashing the output files to your board.
### Download and flash Android image
## Tastitalia Naming Convention
We follow a specific naming convention for our board names. The board names are in the format **tasXYYY_Zg_W**, where:
- "**X**" indicates the format of the System-on-Module (SOM):
- "d" represents SODIMM format
- "c" represents SMARC format.
- "**YYY**" indicates the processor type, such as "8mp" for NXP i.MX8M Plus processor
- "**Z**" indicates the amount of DDR RAM in GB.
- "**W**" indicates the display size in inches.
For example, a board name **tasd8mm_2g_7** would represent a board with a SODIMM format, an i.MX8M Mini processor, 2GB of DDR RAM, and a 7-inch display.
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