Collecting information for the planning of a shared development platform
...to develop software code that advances the chosen topics of the Android Automotive SIG home.
Git Repository
What is a "development platform"?
- A well defined version of Android for Automotive development that supports running the individual components that are developed as solutions for specific issues
- A choice of one or more supported hardware boards, for running the basic distribution and programs added to it.
- BSPs and similar support files needed to be added to the Android source code
- Automation tools, build-scripts, configurations and other instructions that orchestrate a build that is repeatable by any involved parties
- A shared repository of the above, stored under GENIVI GitHub
Information and guides
General
Automotive-oriented development boards
Renesas R-Car Gen 3 series
- Supported: R-Car H3 Starter Kit with Kingfisher board
- Starter Kit
- Starter Kits are an automotive orientated compact board series with expansion connectors for connections not on-board and which is aimed at community use.
- 4GB and 8GByte DDR Starter Kit variants available with eMMC to meet Google GAS requirements
- Price approx 950 Euro (TBC)
- Available direct from Renesas.
- Kingfisher
- Kingfisher acts as an add-on base board for the Starter Kit adding numerous automotive connectors and on-board peripherals.
- Kingfisher can be further expanded by dedicated camera boards for GMSL and FPD Link cameras
- Available from the mfr Shimafuji or Renesas.
- Boards, documentation and Yocto BSP available without NDA
- Also likely to work: R-Car H3/M3 Salvator-XS board
- Salvator-XS is the R-Car customer reference board.
- More expensive than Starter Kit, but mentioned here as some participants will have them in-house and Android is available for it.
- Boards available direct from Renesas.
- R-Car is officially supported within Genivi GDP, AGL and Adaptive Autosar FT-DI/FT-SI teams.
- Renesas maintains support for the Genivi Yocto Baseline and are contributing knowledge and a board farm towards the Genivi Automated Test system.
NXP
Qualcomm Snapdragon
- Not supported out of the box. Community input is welcome.
- Proposal: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S820Am v2 Automotive Development Platform
Alternative consumer-oriented development boards
HiKey 960
Dragonboard
Emulator / Virtual Machine options
Android Emulator
- Not supported out of the box. Community input is welcome.
- Part of Android Studio. Open Android Device Manager and choose emulation. Etc.
VirtualBox