Google Apps are proprietary Google applications that come pre-installed with most Android devices. Due to licensing restrictions, these apps cannot come pre-installed with Linaro Android images and must be installed separately. These apps include Gmail, Maps, and the Google Play Store, just to name a few. More information can be found here: Google for Android
Hi Alexander,Currently it should be OK to install GApps during the test period. For LAVA, we can simply use wget to grab the installation file from the link I posted, then use adb to install; for manually testing, we download it in our browser then install.In our release image, there won't be any GApps. However, if I mark Calendar & People apps as "PASSED" in our test result spreadsheets and we don't add GApps to our release image, we have to add the comments I mentioned to our release notes to avoid confusion. I think add comment to release notes is the easiest way to solve (walk around) this issue.Thanks.Best RegardsBotao SunOn Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Alexander Sack <asac@linaro.org> wrote:
Hi,Scott pointed out that we cannot pre-install proprietary apps like these in our images due to legal reasons.Instead we can work on tools that allow us to install them during LAVA runs and on tools that make it easy for QA to install them for their manual testing purpose...