Hi, I'm new to Android development and recently I've been playing with the emulator and the applications, etc, and overall just getting to know the internals of the code. My main goal though is understanding the porting aspect of it on an actual embedded device.
Anyway, on to my question. I noticed that when building android it creates three img files: ramdisk.img, system.img, and userdata.img. Can someone give an explanation what these images are? My understanding is that these images are *emulator-specific* images to the ram, system, userdata, respectively on the emulator, but not necessarily "generic" images for any android-capable phones. In other words, is it possible (at all) to upload these same images to, say, a G1 phone and expect the same behavior I see in the emulator to be on the G1 phone (assuming of course I use a cross-compiler for that target phone to build the *.img files). Or are these img files solely for emulator-purposes only? I apologize if this is too elementary for you guys as I'm learning along the way here. Any input about those img files are greatly appreciated. Thanks. MBeth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
