Project to give a rich Android development environment for end-users to use over adb.
androdeb aims to provide a powerful Linux environment where one can run popular and mainstream Linux tracing, compiling, editing and other development tools.
(1) Powerful development environment with all tools ready to go (editors, compilers, tracers, perl/python etc) for your on-device development.
(2) No more cross-compiler needed: Because it comes with gcc and clang, one can build target packages natively without needing to do any cross compilation. We even ship git, and have support to run apt-get to get any missing development packages.
(3) Using these one can run popular tools such as BCC that are difficult to run in an Android environment due to lack of packages, dependencies and cross-compilation needed for their operation.
(4) No more crippled tools: Its often a theme to build a static binary with features disabled, because you couldn‘t cross-compile the feature’s dependencies. One classic example is perf. However, thanks to androdeb, we can build perf natively on device without having to cripple it.
Target: An ARM64 android N or later device which has “adb root” supported. Typically this is a build in a userdebug configuration. Device should have atleast 2 GB free space in the data partition.
Host: A machine running recent Ubuntu or Debian, with 4GB of memory and 4GB free space. Host needs qemu-debootstrap package installed. Run apt-get install qemu-debootstrap.
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