Google's Git commits point to project on pared-back Android for virtualized environments
Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day Matthew Hughes Tue 26 Jan 2021 // 18:31 UTC Share Copy Dubbed MicroDroid, the project is described as a “minimal Linux image.” Rather than start from scratch, Google plans to take an axe to an Android Generic System Image (GSI), carving out redundancies while preserving components that could prove useful. These include ADBD, which handles IDE and command-line debugging; init, which is a major part of the Android boot process; and ServiceManager, which manages background services. The ...
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