How to build and use emulator for imx8m board

[msingh1920]

Hi Sir,

I am using imx8m mini EVK and Andriod 9.0 AOSP version.

I am successfully able to download and build the AOSP for imx8 EVK board and it is working fine. 

To build the AOSP for imx8mm evk I used below commands -

      $ source build/envsetup.sh

      $ lunch evk_8mm-userdebug

      $ make 2>&1 | tee build-log.txt

But I want to use emulator for my some development and testing activity.

When i execute emulator command   -

      $ emulator

then emulator opens but it is not booting and working at all.

In some blogs and AOSP documentation it is mentioned that it will work for - lunch aosp_x86_64-eng

But I want to use emulator with my imx8 mini EVK board. i.e. - lunch evk_8mm-userdebug

Please suggest how can I use emulator for my imx8MM build i.e. for ->  lunch evk_8mm-userdebug 

What all changes and setting will be required for doing it.

Thanks & Regards,

Maneesh

[isabellagreen96]

This guide is really helpful for anyone building the emulator specifically for the i.MX8M board. The step-by-step instructions make it easier to set up the environment and get the emulator running smoothly. I’m excited to try it out on my own device and see how well it performs. Thanks for sharing!

[emras]

Hi,

How did you port the latest android to imx8?

I am at the beginning of android system dev, could you give me some advises?

I have download the aosp and built it and run it on the emulator, I have  not decided the next step, any advice will be appreciated,

Thank you for your time

Best regards

[msingh1920]

Hi,

Any Suggestions over my above question ?

Thanks,

Maneesh

[msingh1920]

Hi Sir,

As I mentioned in my above post that I am successfully able to compile all of the AOSP Source codes for imx8 Mini Board

and able to test it on my imx8m Mini EVK board.

But when I try to launch emulator on my ubuntu linux, the emulator window appeared but it remain blacked out forever.

Here is the command -

$ emulator

Is it possible to launch imx8 mini  AOSP and their Android framework on Android emulator?

If possible, what is the steps for it ? or is there an alternative way to do emulation?

NOTE -

In some blogs and AOSP documentation it is mentioned that it will work for - lunch aosp_x86_64-eng

But When I downloaded the AOSP and Try to build it from lunch aosp_x86_64-eng command then it gives error saying  -

/bin/bash: -c: line 0: `echo -e "\033[1mvendor/nxp-opensource/fsl_imx_demo/Ethernet/Android.mk: \033[31merror:\033[0m\033[1m" ethernet: Specifies both LOCAL_SDK_VERSION (system_current) and LOCAL_PRIVATE_PLATFORM_APIS (current) but should specify only one "\033[0m" >&2'
build/make/core/sdk_check.mk:34: error: done.
14:57:53 ckati failed with: exit status 1

Steps I followed to download and build the AOSP from NXP Website for imx8 -

$ repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest.git -b imx-android-pie -m imx-p9.0.0_2.0.0-ga.xml

$ repo sync

$ source build/envsetup.sh

$ lunch evk_8mm-userdebug

$ make 2>&1 | tee build-log.txt

Now my question is ->

1. How to use emulator with this AOSP build which is generated by above commands?

2. How to build this downloaded AOSP source code for lunch aosp_x86_64-eng ?

3. From where to download raw AOSP source code for Android Pie without any changes from NXP ?

Thanks,

Maneesh

[diegoadrian]

Hello,

Unfortunately, the emulation and the aosp_x86_64-eng device is not supported by our BSP. I apologize for the inconvenience this could give you.

However, you can download the ASOP code with any changes in the following git.

repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-9.0.0_r35  # This branch is the revision that our latest Android version uses.

repo sync

Best regards,

Diego.