Android on MIPS Source Code

Before downloading the Android source code be sure that you have a correctly setup Linux workstation.  Click here for instructions on setting up your workstation.

All MIPS Android source code can be viewed online at:  http://www.github.com/mips.  At this web page you can view the source tree, history and other information about the entire source tree.

Downloading

To download the source code to your development machine do the following:

Android Jelly Bean

The latest version of Jelly Bean is MIPS release 4.2.2 release notes are here.

From a terminal window type:

mkdir mipsandroid
cd mipsandroid
repo init -u git://github.com/MIPS/manifests.git -b dev-mips-jb-mr1 -m mips-jb-4.2.2_r1.xml
repo sync

 

The prior version of Jelly Bean is MIPS release 4.1.2.    Use this version …….

From a terminal window type:

mkdir mipsandroid
cd mipsandroid
repo init -u git://github.com/MIPS/manifests.git -b dev-mips-jb -m mips-jb-4.1.2_r1m1.xml
repo sync

 

Android Ice Cream Sandwich

The latest version of Ice Cream Sandwich is MIPS release 6 and release notes are here

From a terminal window type:

mkdir mipsandroid
cd mipsandroid
repo init -u git://github.com/MIPS/manifests.git -b mips-ics-mr1.1 -m mips-ics-4.0.4_r1.1m6.xml
repo sync

 

Android Gingerbread

The latest version of Gingerbread is “r3″ and release notes are here

From a terminal window type:

mkdir mipsandroid
cd mipsandroid
repo init -u git://github.com/MIPS/manifests.git -b mips-gb-2.3.5 -m mips-gb-2.3.5_r1m3.xml
repo sync

Android Froyo

The latest version of Froyo is “r10″ and release notes are here

From a terminal window type:

mkdir mipsandroid
cd mipsandroid
repo init -u git://github.com/MIPS/manifests.git -b mips-froyo-r10
repo sync

Download Speed

The first time you run the repo sync it will download several gigabytes of source code to your machine so be patient.  Once the download is completed future updates may take only a few minutes since only the code changes are downloaded.

Dalvik turbo

MIPS has an optimized port of Myriad Dalvik turbo available for Android. This version of the Dalvik virtual machine is many times faster than the stock version of Dalvik that is available with the Android source code. Click here to download Dalvik Turbo