boringdroid

Introduction

Boringdroid is an AOSP extending project based on AOSP(9.0 - 14.0), and it provides a minimum patchset to use multi-window in AOSP by default. The patch set is boring, and most of problems the patchset resolves look like they are disappearing on master branch, so the project is boring, that the reason I calls it Boringdroid.

Preview

The boringdroid adds a minimize button for each window, and provides a smooth resizing experience. Boringdroid also provides an enhanced taskbar to show running task list and installed app list. The next steps for Boringdroid will be to provide system tray functionalities in the taskbar.

Download

mkdir -p boringdroid/14
cd boringdroid/14
repo init -u https://github.com/boringdroid/manifest.git -b boringdroid-14.0.0
repo sync -c -d --no-tags

Build

source build/envsetup.sh
lunch boringdroid_x86_64-userdebug
m

The boringdroid now runs in emulator, which is convenient to debug and test modification. So the product boringdroid_x86_64 bases on the goldfish. After building, we can execute emulator to start emulator.

From boringdroid-13.0.0, if you encounter boot image verified error, you can try use m -j8 or other proper thread number to reduce the thread number for building to fix it.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING

Architecture

See ARCHITECTURE

Android-x86 porting

The Android-x86 has accepted ported patches for Android-x86 to their code repositories.

A BlissLabs Project

The boringdroid is a BlissLabs Project.

Special thanks

Thanks Roger Truttmann of BlissLabs to help design logo.

License

The modified AOSP project uses the origin license. And the boringdroid created projects will uses its custom license on its project.