Talk:Android

Building RAM usage

Using the official build instructions from the LineageOS Wiki, I did not notice heavy usage of the /tmp directory. Instead I needed around 10 GB of Memory for the build to succeed. I think the behaviour is the same for AOSP.

—This unsigned comment is by Gu (talk) 14:56, 26 July 2017‎. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

Android Studio

If you are planning to install and use android studio, Do not also install android-tools and android-udev.

The use of adb from android-tools interferes with the adb built into android studio causing it to crash when you stop the application after running it on a physical device. Even after unplugging the phone, it is still registered as being connected to the computer preventing it from connecting again once plugged back in requiring a restart.

—This unsigned comment is by Anatzum (talk) 02:48, 14 November 2017. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

Emulator Performance

Emulator seems to runs faster with Skia enabled. In adb shell, do

$ su
# setprop debug.hwui.renderer skiagl
# stop
# start

As well, I noticed that emulator breaks without running as emulator -gpu swiftshader_indirect.

Pickfire (talk) 04:45, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Android NDK

It would be a good idea to mention some words about android-ndk. I found that the NDK and platform versions must match... so just using the latest of each available package, currently, doesn

Building the code

lunch full-eng doesn't seem to be a valid lunch option anymore:

lunch full-eng Invalid lunch combo: full-eng Valid combos must be of the form <product>-<release>-<variant>

I'm not sure if there's a better general purpose choice. Jvreeland (talk) 19:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Fastboot in android-tools

Section 4 mentions that fastboot is included in the android-tools package. However, this seems to be not the case. Could someone verify this for me as well? Linkmyloader (talk) 04:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)