I am trying to create an application that will have a service running in the background that will be capable of injecting touch screen events into whatever activity is running. I am able to inject ...

I'm testing several modifications of Cyanogen MOD ROM's. It's not really comfortable to test them on real device. So the question: is it possible to install custom ROM (in particular CyanogenMod) o...

use ubuntu I type file ramdisk.img and the Terminal display ramdisk.img: data, I use cpio and get nothing extracted! How can I extract such ramdisk.img?

I just wants to know the difference between fastboot and recovery modes in android device. So far my understanding I thought that Recovery mode : contains a small Linux image, having some simple ...

Recently, I'm interest in the android rom, I want to change and rebuild them. So, I did some test on my XOOM, it's very easy to flash something into the machine. I got some ROM from MOTOROLA ...

I was reading about A20 line http://wiki.osdev.org/A20_Line, which seems to indicate that A20 line is disabled by default. On Pentium, if 0xFFFFFFF0 is the address put out immediately after hard re...

I'm trying to bring up a 4.4 android build for my droid razr HD. It compiles cleanly, but when I try to install it fails with the following error in the recovery log: ApplyParsedPerms: removexatt...

I want to fill my device disk space with any dump data as part of stress testing. I tried writing bytes into a file in external storage; obviously larger & more spacious the disk is longer it ...

I've got a problem. I'm developing an android application that scans for wireless accesspoints/routers. I've been testing a couple of devices and I'm getting scan rates of 2, 1, 0.5, 0.1 etc. scans...

Update I got this working. How I am not sure. I did no config changes at all. What I did was: Modify Dialog in frameworks/base/core/java/android/app. Went to my root (/path/to/source/). Then I d...

I am going to buy the Nexus 5 when it is available in my country. I then want to make changes (mostly UI) to the Android source code and run it on my phone. My question is: how do I fastest test t...

I read "custom ROM" and "customized firmware" all over the internet. To my understanding ROM stands for Read Only Memory. Despite that I see links to files, that I suppose, are filesystem im...

I am curious as to how emulators work. What are they written in? Does it have to emulate even the graphics? How do people get the games uploaded as roms? Do they simulate the systems OS?

Does anyone know if this it is possible to run a Custom ROM on a AVD? ANd how can I do this? Thanks

I'm developing S/W for some device which uses Linux O.S. So, the size of libraries (RAM/ROM) which I use is very important. How can I easily calculate RAM / ROM required by my software? (including...

Is it possible rip game resources from a .smc file? Specifically art, music, sprites, etc. How does an emulator copy the system it emulates?

Does anyone have a reference or source about how GameBoy Color roms are laid out - where the data and code, what machine code instructions are used, how the clock works etc? I'm interested in...

Does anyone know what language ROMs (such as GBA ROMs) are coded in? I'd also like to know if there would be a simplistic way to decompile these ROMs.