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145<a name="androidPortingGuideTitle"></a><h1>Welcome to the Android Porting Guide</h1>
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151<a href="#androidWelcomeIntendedAudience">Intended Audience</a><br/>
152<a href="#androidWelcomeGettingStarted">Getting Started with Android</a><br/>
153<a href="#androidWelcomePorting">Porting Android to Your Device</a><br/></div></font></div>
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155<p>The Open Handset Distribution (OHD) is a software distribution for mobile devices, often referred to as Android, developed by members of the <a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com">Open Handset Alliance</a>. &nbsp;Android includes an operating system, middleware, and key applications typically required for a mobile device.</p>
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157<p>This porting guide describes the steps necessary to port Android to a new mobile device. &nbsp;Android is designed as a highly-portable, hardware-independent platform based on Linux, and porting the platform to new devices requires little more than porting the Linux kernel and developing the Linux drivers necessary for your device.</p>
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159<p>The current version of this guide describes bringing Android up to "PDA-level" functionality; functionality sufficient to support non-multimedia apps that run on unconnected mobile devices through the standard user interface devices such as keypad and display. &nbsp;Future versions of this guide will cover complete telephony, multi-media and peripheral integration to create a complete mobile device.</p>
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164<p>This porting guide is intended for engineers proficient with running (and writing drivers for) Linux on embedded devices.
165<p>The guide also assumes you have a target hardware that matches <a href="system_requirements.html">Device Requirements</a> and that you
166can boot and run a recent (2.6.x) version of the Linux kernel
167with at least keypad and display drivers properly installed.</p>
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170<a name="androidWelcomeGettingStarted"></a><h2>Getting Started with Android</h2>
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172<p>To get started with Android, start with the publicly-available documentation at <a href="http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html">http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html</a>, paying particular attention to <a href="http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html">What is Android?</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/android/intro/index.html">Getting Started with Android</a>.</p>
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177<p>Start with the following sections in order to port Android to your target hardware.</p>
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180 <dd>What must your device support in order to successfully port Android to it? </dd>
181 <dt><a href="source_setup_guide.html">Setting up a Development Environment </a></dt>
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183 <dd>Install necessary packages and retrieve source code through a Git server. <a href="build_system.html">Build System</a> offers a conceptual overview of Android's build system and instructions to affect a simple build.</dd>
184 <dt><a href="bring_up.html">Basic Bring up </a></dt>
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