Android 4.0?

[leonjye]

Lets go step by step and get GB fully functional yet ..

agree, since we have some many real buttons but small screen, I think we need a stable GB/froyo more than an experimental ICS

[natalleos]

i seen nexus one video with 4.0 SDK ICS Android 4.0 for Nexus One - YouTube

[sysrq11]

tom3q uses a development board to customize linux kernel 3.0 for Samsung S3C6410, which is used by Spica. He publishes his work at github. I have a Spica too and want to want to help porting linux 3.0 on the device as well. But I don't know how to start.

How does a common development environment looks like, if I don't own a development board? How does the development cycle (implement, compile, deploy/copy, run, debug/test, anaylze log output) looks like?

I know how to get a root shell (adb shell) and how to get kernel messages (dmesg). But I don't know, for example, how to exchange the current kernel with a new kernel, because I don't know where the current kernel is stored (/dev devices, mount point).

Also if I managed to update to new kernel, what if the kernel fails to boot? In this case I have no shell and don't know what to do next. Probably I could create a new update.zip to provide a new kernel, but I don't know how to create a update.zip either.

I am searching for good articles and howtos explaining developing for android and spica, but it is hard to find good information. So I am asking here, hoping to get some useful information.