Android Internals

• Mobile & Open Source
• Conference
• Beginner

Android is known to have been built on Linux. However, for those who come from a traditional Linux embeded background, Android can be a strange beast. 

This talk aims at providing insight into Android's main components with an emphasis on how it differs and/or resembles to traditional embedded Linux systems. Topics covered include: 

• system startup,
• kernel Androidisms,
• hardware support, 
• native user-space, 
• the Dalvik VM, 
• the JNI bridge, 
• the System Server, 
• the Activity Manager, 
• the Binder mechanism, 
• an overview of stock Android apps and pointers for hacking/modifying Android.