Open Source Android Development Tools

Good to see people talking about this again. You might find some useful pointers in my post on this: Legal advice: avoiding the Google EULA? it didn’t get much replies, I guess I made a too big wall of text.

The two most important things to note is:

  1. When using “repo” to download the sources for a SDK, it also downloads a large number of “prebuilt” repositories, many containing a “NOTICE” file with the EULA. I believe this is also affecting both Starfish and Beuc’s Android Rebuilds, but no one seems to have noticed it.
  2. A working script (actually PKGBUILD) to build the SDK with all the “prebuilt” downloads removed can be found here: SDK - Replicant Especially notice the “sed” line which removes the “prebuilt” repos.
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