[gpsd-dev] RFC: GPSd on Android as a system service

[A.S.]

My goal is to use GPSd to provide location services for Android.

This project can be broken down into three phases;

1) Building the libgps client library,

2) Building a GNSS HAL that uses libgps,

3) Building GPSd.

The Android build system is sufficiently unique to require a change in the build process. For example, it is not possible to use scons to generate configuration files, specifically, gpsd_config.h and gps_maskdump.c. This makes it necessary to generate those files in advance.

The following makes it possible to build libgps for Android using the Android build system:

https://gitlab.com/aserbinski/gpsd/commit/09e65db24ea3a2322863443ef48477e05dcabb10

Further, I have begun implementation of a GNSS 1.1 HAL that leverages libgps, here;

https://gitlab.com/aserbinski/gpsd/commit/81899450f6f8346ef6e2d630eb4c19d6bb374e33

Note that neither of these is actually tested beyond successful compile yet.

Thanks,

Adam