This course is an Android porting oriented course targeted at prospective Android porting engineers, experienced programmers and engineers who are interested in learning the fundamentals of adapting Android to a new target system, Mobile Security Researchers.

The attendees should be proficient with C, be familiar with basic Linux command line tools, should have working knowledge of Java and C++.

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Introduction to Android

• First look
• Anatomy of an application
• Native code
• Intents
• Other application components

Board Configuration

• The Android kernel
• Starting up
• Adding new packages
• Graphics and OpenGL
• Binder

Android's hardware abstraction layer

• Network
• Input devices
• Sound and vision
• Resource management

Conclusion