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Android Developer's Desktop Remix

Published by prizm
Based on openSUSE 11.3 32-bit x86

NOTE: a new version written from scratch will be out soon, including a modern SDK and less errors in building!

bgta’s Android developer desktop is a great idea, but there is a problem: it’s filled with tons of cruft not needed for a developer’s desktop like Tomboy, GIMP and Empathy, and added some useful things like a git GUI. I’ve drastically decreased the size of the appliance with these changes.

I try and improve on their appliance with this. Also, I’ve switched out the PAE kernel with the standard one, to help it run on more devices.

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Media

USB & disk image

This is an image of your disk, ready to be written to either a USB drive or your hard disk. When written, it will erase all data on a disk. During the first boot, your partition will bee automatically resized to fill available space.

Release notes

Updated to openSUSE 11.3.

Reason why it was so late is because it refused to build until recently.

Technical Details

Appliance configuration

Basic settings

Keyboard: english-us
Time zone: Etc/GMT
Language: en_US.UTF-8
Network: dhcp
Firewall: disabled

Software

3 patterns, 592 packages
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Everyone's comments

Madhu SudanMadhu Sudan,

+so super open source os

zevi bulkiahzevi bulkiah,

it’s awesome !!!
please tell me how to make a good own OS ????

Saeid AkbariSaeid Akbari,

awesome!
can you tell me what you have uploaded in this appliance?
I am building a private appliance for myself, I am thinking of adding Android Development
support. but there is no Android SDK in official repositories.

Thanks a lot!

prizmprizm,

Damn it, I’m having the worst time with building: there’s this ghost dependency that it completely unremovable. Gonna have to get out the big guns…

prizmprizm,

Building now, expect update in 12h

prizmprizm,

Snags hit, expect one today or tommorow

prizmprizm,

or maybe this week or the next

prizmprizm,

this damn extractor: it’s only making the tarball’s contents readable as root.

linuxfan2000linuxfan2000,

it awsome but the web wont work

jay manalejay manale,

it’s awesome

Apptayztor FaysboukApptayztor Faysbouk,

DAYUMMMMM, this is really nice, I have tweaked my ACER NETBOOK with Android for Windblows7, and it broke my license[hence why I am now using U11.10 with G3 shell modded and rodded out with Chromium and Midori Browsers. More Deco TTF typefaces requested because I love MiamiBEACH!!! But back on the subject I really love my ANDROID so if you don’t mind I am gonna use some of your great stuff for my build. Keep the awesomesauce coming!!!

jordan harveyjordan harvey,

thats good but not excellant

MichelMichel,

Very Nice

Chad RobinsonChad Robinson,

I was thinking this allowed for the ability to modify and build the Android Source. Not just for android app development. Have you thought about including the Android Source for ROM building?

Baptiste RajautBaptiste Rajaut,

How to install it? O_o
Its only a Live version?

MarcusOyMarcusOy,

nice

Nisarg DesaiNisarg Desai,

how do u created this android using suse studio?????

Nisarg DesaiNisarg Desai,

do did u created this andriod O.S ????

cogra147cogra147,

its not android os its a android dev os

Luis riveraLuis rivera,

how can i change it to an image file ( .iso )

Brendan JuddBrendan Judd,

Waiting...
Test Drives Full
DANG IT!!!

Planet TechnologiesPlanet Technologies,

What do you mean?

P.S
How did you get that “Bold” font

Brendan JuddBrendan Judd,

Text formats
@ Hello @ is Code
so
Hello

Bastiaan TeeuwenBastiaan Teeuwen,

And Bold is * text *

And that gives

bold

Game GuyGame Guy,

Testing

Lorenzo BurgalassiLorenzo Burgalassi,

Great! Very Appresciated!
Do you know why I’m not able to upgrade SDK tools from 6 to 11? I’ve that message:
“Downloading Android SDK Tools, revision 11
Installing Android SDK Tools, revision 11
Failed to rename directory /usr/local/android-sdk-linux_86/tools to /usr/local/android-sdk-linux_86/temp/ToolPackage.old01.”

Speed ElectronicsSpeed Electronics,

Lo puedes actualizar a 11.4, es que al clonarlo, me precenta problemas.

Speed ElectronicsSpeed Electronics,

Quisiera descargarlos pero en Iso. gracias

robin van eerobin van ee,

How did you get Eclipse? It’s not under packages for me. I want an SDL development OS but every IDE except Eclipse has pretty much dropped support for SDL (or is overall crap).

prizmprizm,

It’s 11.3. I tried to upgrade it to 11.4 but Eclipse is really dysfunctional/breaking RPM. I’ll upgrade when I feel it is ready.

prizmprizm,

for next version

WizePC (Orb)WizePC (Orb),

I think you should switch out Epipany for Firefox

VisuexVisuex,

virtual ovf please

WizePC (Orb)WizePC (Orb),

Clone the appliance and change the image to .ovf

hithit,

hi !
I loved your over android. Bt one thing I want to tell you that I have learned from this years that every linux distro is filled with tons of unwanted stuff. mind well, unwanted doesn’t means it is not usefull. But for every purpose you will find more than one software. from multimedia to office work you will find duplicated software. But very few have packed essential and yet user friendly GUI based application. Take for example what will an average user do to formate his pendrive ? It is easy for U and me but what about a newbie. Windows success is due to these kind of simple yet important factor. We should work on this kind of stuff. Therefore try to make a simple yet very usefull thing which canbe used “out of box” ! ( without having to connect to internet and searching the repositories… !)

take care !

jack_breezejack_breeze,

uhh, my OS FireSlick is 490-500MB and has feature equivalent to ubuntu and fedora and it is still lighter it only has essential software. No duplicates or unwanted software. Check mine out http://susegallery.com/a/qKUXzw/fireslick

prizmprizm,

Is it useful for Android devlopment?

I’m trying to reduce the size of the distro, plus I want to avoid redundancy and uselessness.

If you want a general-purpose distro, you want Ubuntu.

prizmprizm,

By the way, I’m working on a 11.3 version, but it don’t work :(

Andy FitzsimonAndy Fitzsimon,

very interesting. i’d say gimp and inkscape still belong here for editing android graphics.

removing tomboy and other unrelated packages is greatly appreciated

prizmprizm,

Personally I prefer minimalistic application sets. Inkscape was just plain huge and GIMP was too. I really don’t think a dev would need an image editor.

Andy FitzsimonAndy Fitzsimon,

actually, you’re probably right. the dependencies are huge for what could be considered sometimes-used software

prizmprizm,

And besides, it’s probably better for a graphics designer to do this stuff. BTW, could you answer the questionnaire I asked people to fill out below?

Jason MillerJason Miller,

What about people who do both?

prizmprizm,

Add the packages manually.

Ray LongRay Long,

Clone the appliance; add your own packages.

prizmprizm,

I want YOU to tell me if I should change these:

*Should I use XFCE or LXDE instead of GNOME?
*Should I remove Eclipse?
*Anything else?

Andy FitzsimonAndy Fitzsimon,

no opinion on removing eclipse. I don’t use it.
gnome is probably still best however lxde if size really does matter.

WizePC (Orb)WizePC (Orb),

- I would keep gnome, because I honestly don’t like XFCE or LXDE. But like Andy said if size matters, use LXDE.
- I would keep eclipse.

Jason MillerJason Miller,

GNOME is fine, and it’s polished. Eclipse is a huge seeping bucket of trash.

prizmprizm,

But it’s the recommended IDE of Android…

I hate it too, but want to make sure people use it.

Cristian MesselCristian Messel,

Eclipse IDE is VERY useful for android. Since I started developing android apps that thing helped A LOT! It is incredibly useful in this case and in my opinion it should not be removed!

Garami GáborGarami Gábor,

Netbeans has Android support too through plugin, so I don’t thing Eclipse can be better. I tried both IDE, and I choosen NetBeans for Android development (too).

Andrew SullivanAndrew Sullivan,
  • Keep GNOME or use LXDE instead;
  • No! Eclipse is the official Android IDE, so it must be here
  • Choromium instead/aside with Firefox
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