Vagrant box setup for working on the Android source code.

Download and install VirtualBox

Download and install vagrant

Got to the repository folder and launch the box:

$ cd [repo]
$ vagrant up

Connect to the box over ssh:

$ vagrant ssh

All the packages needed to build the Android source are setup. Repo is already downloaded. You can continue and download the source:

$ mkdir android-source
$ cd android-source
$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
$ repo sync

Continue with the instructions from http://source.android.com/.

Older versions of the Android source (pre April 2014) need Java 6 to build, in Vagrantfile change:

USE_JAVA_6=false

to:

USE_JAVA_6=true

You can customize the number of CPU cores and memory the VM will utilize in Vagrantfile, the default is set to 2 CPU cores and 2GB RAM which is pretty conservative.

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.memory = 2 * 1024
    v.cpus = 2
  end