Getting ready

As we already know, Google is the official manager of the entire hardware infrastructure supporting Android—everything is hosted and maintained by Google. The source code repository also provides a web UI to graphically navigate the source code. This source code browser is available at https://android.googlesource.com/.

The following screenshot shows an example of what the page looks like:

Getting ready

Every single item of the list shown in the previous screenshot is a git repository. This can give you a perfect idea of the importance of Google's repo tool—manually managing this many repositories would be pure madness! Using repo, retrieving, downloading, ...

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