Custom First Boot sequence

[Ken]

Hi,

I'm new to building AOSP.  I'm currently working off Android 4.04.  I'm not sure if this question belongs here or in porting/building groups.

Essentially I'm interested in developing a custom series of screens on initial first time boot up of a device.  For example when I first boot up a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 running ICS, it asks the user for language, setting wireless services and initial google account login.  I would like to create my own greeting screens and a process for the user to perform initial setup of the device.

Is this sequence vendor specific?  Is there a standard sequence of events that happens on a base build of Android if its the first time the device is booted?  If so, can you point me to a place in the AOSP source tree? Also how do I "reset" the emulator so that I can emulate a "first boot" of a device?

If it is vendor specific/custom, at what point in the Android device boot sequence should I look into modifying.  I understand after the kernel loads it starts the system/core/init process with the init.rc script.  Would I need to create a package that can be launched?

I believe waiting building an app package and waiting for ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED is possibly too late in the process as I usually see the lock screen and the system UI and apps loaded before I receive this broadcast.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated or any tips on where I could look deeper.

Thanks,

Ken 

[Tez]

you can try observing the logs from system startup and see which
activity is started first by the activity manager.
then look at its code.

-Earlence

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Check packages/apps/Provision for an example of code that runs at
first boot. That one is not user-visible, but IIRC it's a full-grown
Activity and uses the same mechanism as Google's SetupWizard.

On the emulator, you can use --wipe-data to delete the content of the
/data partition, which will get you back to clean state.

JBQ

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