The Unofficial Android Links

This is my list of links related to understanding & working with Google's Android operating system.

Similar Work

• Unofficial Android FAQ

Background Info

• Android (Operating System)
• Open Handset Alliance
• ARM Architecture
• Analysis of Android (weak)
• Understanding Google Android Programming Terminology

Security Overview, Analyses and Research

• Security Overview
• Manifest.permission file
• AndroidManifest.XML Introduction
• Pulling A John Connor; Defeating Android
• iSEC - Securing Android Apps
• iSEC - Android Exploratory - BlackHat 2009
• Overview of Android Security
• Towards Formal Analysis of the Permission-Based Security Model for Android

Security Threats

• Threats against stored SMS in Micropayment Schemes
• Mabir worm
• SMS security analysis
• Flaw in SMS processing - article 1
• Flaw in SMS processing - article 2
• Charlie Miller's 2009 BlackHat Paper on SMS processing flaw
• iPhone Privacy Threats
• more iPhone security issues - could they exist in Android too?
• Android Rootkit is just a phone call away

Development Tools & Information

• ADB
• SDK
• SDK on Mac OS Snow Leopard
• Hello World tutorial
• open-source site for much of the software
• Application Fundamentals
• Content class
• Intent class
• adding components to the SDK
• Android Virtual Devices
• Javadoc package index
• Android Asset Packaging Tool
• How-to work with Android source Code
• DroidWeb: Installing Android 2.0 on a Mac

Reverse Engineering

• Dedexer Disassembler
• Smali/Baksmali Assembler and Disassembler
• How to decompile DEX files
• UNDX source (decompiler; neat but doesn't really work yet)
• UNDX homepage

Implementation Details

• Dexopt (ODEX files)
• Optimized DEX files
• Using ServiceDirectory
• Android's native libc, Bionic
• OpenBinder, the IPC mechanism
• The Six Million Dollar libc
• Android Under the Hood
• Content Providers
• documentation on Binder, the main IPC mechanism

Dalvik VM

• Dalvik VM
• Dalvik Virtual Machine
• Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack vs Registers
• With Android and Dalvik at Google I/O
• Dalvik VM Internals

Related Technologies

• Wireless Application Protocol
• WBXML
• YAFFS NAND-specific Flash filesystem Intro
• YAFFS homepage
• YAFFS
• XMLVM overview
• A Standalone Android Runtime
• A Standalone Android Runtime - Look Ma, no Dalvik
• A Standalone Android Runtime - The ServiceManager

Licensing Issues

• Why Google Chose the Apache Software License Over GPLv2
• Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun?s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
• Google and Sun may butt heads over Android

Useful Android Software

• 0xdroid is community-developed Android distribution by 0xlab
• Dropbear SSH package
• Android Busybox
• Busybox
• Connectbot SSH package
• A Linux Developer Rant against Android
• Root My Droid
• ARM rsync binary for android
• Native SSHd on Android
• Debian & Android Together on G1
• Debian Installer for Android

Unofficial Android Apps

• Android-Market.co, free games and apps