B01b: Download the source code

Download Source Code

Info

Execute the commands only if are are not using a cloud instance and not using a prepared SSD. We have already downloaded and build the source code once for you. Execute these only if you are really want to start from scratch.

Create a directory for the code and development environment. In this tutorial, we will simply call this directory android.

# Create a new directory and use it as root of your build environment
mkdir android
cd android

Warning

Downloading takes quite a while and consumes > 200GB of storage capacity.

From this point on, all other commands should be executed from within your sources directory, unless stated otherwise.

# Initialize the repository
repo init --partial-clone -b android-automotiveos-15.0.0_lts4 -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest

# Actually download the source tree
repo sync -c -j8