How to download the android 5.0 source code

Step 1: Install ubuntu 14.04 amd64

1. Download the ubuntukylin‐14.04‐desktop‐amd64.iso in the ubuntu website or other site

2. Make a boot disk with the iso file

3. Install the ubuntu with boot disk

Step 2: Install oracle-java6-jdk

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-installer

It'll keep your java 6 installation up to date.

To automatically set up the Java 6 environment variables JAVA_HOME and PATH:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-set-default

Step 3: Install all the neccessary packages

sudo apt-get install git-core flex bison gperf build-essential curl libncurses5-dev:i386 x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 openjdk-6-jdk tofrodos python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc zlib1g-dev:i386

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Step 4: Create a link to the libGL.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so

Step 5: Create bin path and add it into the PATH envionment variable

mkdir ~/bin

PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Android main in GIT: http://android.github.io/

Android repository index in GIT: https://github.com/android

Step 6: Download the repo file and grant proper permission

curl "https://github.com/android/tools_repo/blob/master/repo" >~/bin/repo

chmod 755 ~/bin/repo

Step 7: Create android source directory and chagne the path to it.

mkdir -p ~/android/lollipop

cd ~/android/lollipop

Step 8: Congiure your email and name

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Step 9: Check all the branch

git ls-remote --tags https://github.com/android/platform_manifest

Step 10: Initialize the repo

repo init -u https://github.com/android/platform_manifest -b android-5.0.0_r2

Step 11: Update the manifest.xml

1、vim .repo/manifest.xml

2、将属性fetch的值修改为"git://Android.git.linaro.org/"

Step 12: Download the source code

repo sync