Stuck at downloading android source code....

[krishnandu_bisw]

Dear NXP,

We are building android for Toradex Apalis iMX6 boards, but we are stuck at downloading android source after executing following commands:

   $ ~/bin/repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-7.1.2_r9
   $ ~/bin/repo sync

it's downloaded over 100 GBs of files and still continuing to download so I stopped it because it exhausted the partition space. Is it that big? What would be approx. size of the source code?Can we discard some files from downloading?

Also, how do I add hardware support for Quectel GSM modules and mSATA drives in it.

And how to build APIs for app development to access them from apps.

Best Regards,

Krishnandu

Bitmapper

[gusarambula]

Hello Krishnandu,

The Apalis boards are manufactured and supported by Toradex so they may be able to assist you with their hardware and BSPs.

The Android Source files are indeed very large. Google’s recommendation is at least 250GB of free space to checkout the code and an extra 150GB to build it.
https://source.android.com/setup/build/requirements

As for APIs in Android there is a lot of useful documentation on the Android Developer  website.

I hope that this helps!

Regards,