G. Blake Meike responds to the real-world needs of embedded and IoT developers moving to Android, providing indispensable information without becoming obscure or too specialised. Meike teaches through a book-length project that covers everything developers need to know to create their own custom Android service. You’ll find approachable yet precise coverage of:

• Why Android is becoming a pervasive embedded platform
• Using Android’s four-tier architectural model in embedded devices
• Setting up a build platform, downloading the AOSP source, and building an Android image
• Walking through system startup on a running Android system
• Running native services on embedded systems
• Using Android’s Native Development Kit (NDK) and HAL to link interpreted Java with native C/C++ code
• Taking a deep dive into the seminal Zygote application and its Dalvik interpreter
• Quickly building Java system services
• Working with Binder, Android’s heart and the root of its security and access control models
• Establishing permissions and access control
• Enabling apps to use the services you’ve created