Build and Boot AGL Flutter IVI dashboard demo applications made for GSoC

0. Prepare Your Build Host

Install the required tools to build an AGL Image. For detailed explanation, check Preparing Your Build host

1. Define Your Top-Level Directory

$ export AGL_TOP=$HOME/AGL
$ echo 'export AGL_TOP=$HOME/AGL' >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ mkdir -p $AGL_TOP

2. Download the repo Tool and Set Permissions

$ mkdir -p $HOME/bin
$ export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
$ echo 'export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH' >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > $HOME/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x $HOME/bin/repo

3. Download the AGL Source Files

To download the latest octopus branch AGL files, use the following commands:

$ cd $AGL_TOP
$ mkdir octopus
$ cd octopus
$ repo init -b octopus -u https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/AGL/AGL-repo
$ repo sync

4. Initialize the build environment using aglsetup.sh Script

To initialize the build environment, we must use the setup script. This script is available here:

$ $AGL_TOP/octopus/meta-agl/scripts/aglsetup.sh

Run the script:

$ cd $AGL_TOP
$ source octopus/meta-agl/scripts/aglsetup.sh -b build-flutter-dashboard -m qemux86-64 agl-demo agl-devel

Here -b is used to specify the build directory and -m is used to specify the target platform.
Running this script, will create a build directory if it does not exist. Default build directory: $AGL_TOP/octopus/build-flutter-dashboard
Default target paltform: qemux86-64

5. Using BitBake

$ cd $AGL_TOP/build-flutter-dashboard
$ source agl-init-build-env
$ bitbake agl-ivi-demo-platform-flutter

6. Deploying the AGL Demo Image

Boot the image using QEMU

$ cd $AGL_TOP/build-flutter-dashboard
$ source agl-init-build-env
$ runqemu kvm serialstdio slirp publicvnc

6. Run the Graphics

To get graphics of the app, you need VNC client like VNC Viewer or Vinagre

Open the VNC client
Enter the server address as localhost:0

That's it, you should get something like this: Screenshot