Future Linaro Android Plans and Brainstorming

Registered by Zach Pfeffer

In this session we'll talk about the future of Linaro Android and brainstorm ways we can make things better for the platform.

Agenda:
ICS
Android's Pandaboard Build
Community unification
Phone builds/components
RT Linux Android
LTS (long-term-support)
Single Android image
Getting to 48 hour monkey

Goals:
Have a lively discussion about Linaro's future Android plans
Generate ideas for future topics

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Zach Pfeffer
Priority:
Essential
Drafter:
Zach Pfeffer
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Zach Pfeffer
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for 2011q4
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon connect-q4.11
Started by
Zach Pfeffer
Completed by
Zach Pfeffer

Related branches

Sprints

Whiteboard

Ideas to consider:

[pfalcon] Two words: Packaged Android. Take the best practices from Linux distros and build individual components into packages, then create complete installable image from packages. Packaging scheme can be trivial - like tarballs with minimal metadata (name/version) in filename. Whatever packaging details are, it seems like scalable way to optimize build/testing/CI loop cycle and support builds for many boards.

Notes
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all boards to be fully enabled(All tests to be green).
Paramerization of Android.
ICS on all boards.
RT android on imx53.
App to install linaro components to Phones/devices.
Web-APIs into webkit from linaro.
work with communities for long term support.
add linux tools on android.
usb host support on android.
wine on android.

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Work Items