leksmax / android

Quick steps to sync and build Evervolv

Getting Started

Install the Android SDK.

Not strictly required to build, but if you want adb / fastboot / monitor, you'll want it see googles instructions

Install the Build Packages

See initializing the environment for googles detailed instructions

Required Packages

Ubuntu 14.04+ (64-bit)

sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
  zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 \
  lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z-dev ccache \
  libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip

If you have dependency issues, try installing only a couple of packages at a time.

Install Java (OpenJDK is recommended)

For Ubuntu 15.04+

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

For Ubuntu 14.04

See Initializing the environment for detailed instructions

Create the Directories

mkdir ~/bin
mkdir -p ~/android/system

Install Repo

Enter the following to download and make executable the "repo" binary:

curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Add export PATH=~/bin:$PATH to your bashrc You may need to logout/login for path changes to take effect.

Download Source

Now enter the following to initialize the repository:

cd ~/android/system/
repo init -u git://github.com/Evervolv/android.git -b q-10.0
# Then to start the Sync. (This is gonna take awhile)
repo sync -f

All proprietary files are kept in the repo, no need to pull them from your device (unless adding devices).

Configure Build

Now, your environment must be configured to build specifically for your device. To set up your build environment:

. build/envsetup.sh
lunch

And choose your device. The first time you run lunch the device, vendor, and any dependencies will be automatically downloaded.

Building

Next, we will build the actual ROM.

We will specify the amount of jobs you want to run (replace # with number of cpu cores, or be adventurous and max it out!) 'otapackage' creates the zip file that can be flashed through recovery

make -j# otapackage

Completed!

Your compiled Evervolv rom will be located at:

~/android/system/out/target/product/<product>/ev_<product>-<release>.zip