Embedded Android: Porting, Extending, and Customizing 1st Edition

Absolutely wonderful for not only customizing your android installation but it takes you through a well laid out overview of the Android system. It goes more in-depth with the build systems and customizing Android. It has a bit of system coverage of the internals of the Android system. I wish it covered building your own Androidized Kernel. More for the system developer not the app developer.

This is one of the rare books that digs into the internals of Android. It was well written and informative and digs into the internals of the AOSP. This isn't a book that caters to app developers as you can see from the title.I found it to be well organized, up to date, and highly informative in an area where reading the source code is typically your only option.

And it has been way too long in coming. For decades I have done low level development on systems ranging from mainframes and supercomputers and vast distributed telecommunications systems to tiny microcontrollers and everything in between. I'm the kind of software developer that owns (and needs) two logic analyzers and an oscilloscope. When I started doing Android platform work -- that stuff that is in C and C++ and even snippets of assembler and requires that you know the nitty gritty details of how the platform works under the hood -- I found little in the way of either books or online documentation that was helpful. Yaghmour's book is the one reference that actually speaks to me in the language and terminology that I use day to day and addresses the kinds of concerns that I have. If you are the "systems guy", or even if you're an application developer that just wants to know more about what goes on when you leave the Java world, I would recommend this book.

This book is super well-written. Makes reading about hardware internals a joy. Thanks. I look forward to the next edition, which I hear is out soon.

Karim is an expert on Linux and Android and usually the information presented in his books is fairly thorough. The only thing with this book is that he does not give more insight into actually creating an Embedded Android device with different hardware etc., Most of the contacts in this book talk about how Android at the embedded level is developed currently with the current Android phone devices.

This book provides a great look at how Android works, where to get the source, how to tweek it, and anything else you could want to know in order to understand Android at a deeper level. This is a must read for anyone who needs to do Android system work for custom devices or who just wants to better understand the underlying technologies.

Excellent coverage and insight into the internals of the world Android and OS. This book helped me in leaps and bounds will continue to be a very important reference.

One of my clients asked me if I had read this book. So I showed him my copy. His comment was telling: "if only we had read this before starting this project." I smiled.