Build AOSP with Docker

I was surprised to find very little on the subject.
Some time ago I bought a device which is part of the Sony Open Device Program to free it from any Google services. So now I’m only using FOSS. Yeah!

I pulled 60 Gigabytes of Android sources but couldn’t build it without errors. This is where Docker comes in, it is a very good solution for such cases. I couldn’t find any up to date docker files except for this project. The project is trying to do everything itself for you, including downloading the source files. But I already had that und just wanted to build them. So I made my own docker container.

Here can you find my Dockerfile:

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FROM ubuntu:16.04

# reconfigure to use bash
RUN echo "dash dash/sh boolean false" | debconf-set-selections && \
    dpkg-reconfigure -p critical dash

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y bc \
                       bison \
                       bsdmainutils \
                       build-essential \
                       curl \
                       flex \
                       g++-multilib \
                       gcc-multilib \
                       git \
                       make \
                       liblz4-tool \
                       gnupg \
                       gperf \
                       lib32ncurses5-dev \
                       lib32z1-dev \
                       libesd0-dev \
                       libncurses5-dev \
                       libsdl1.2-dev \
                       libwxgtk3.0-dev \
                       libxml2-utils \
                       lzop \
                       sudo \
                       openjdk-8-jdk \
                       pngcrush \
                       schedtool \
                       xsltproc \
                       zip \
                       zlib1g-dev \
                       graphviz \
                       python \
                       python3 \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
RUN java -version
# fix ninja USER: unbound variable
ENV USER=root

Simply follow these steps:

docker build -t android - < /path/to/Dockerfile
docker run -it --mount type=bind,source=/path/to/android,target=/mnt android bash
# (inside container)
cd /mnt
source build/envsetup.sh && lunch
make –j <insert the cpu thread number of your computer>

This image is capable of compiling some android source branches. Tested with aosp_h3213-eng, aosp_h3213-userdebug, aosp_f5321-eng and aosp_f5321-userdebug

Branch	Status
android-8.1.0_r35	Working
android-9.0.0_r1	Not working