Cscope can be a great tool to browse the Android source code. Here is what I did to get it working with vim

Get cscope_maps.vim from here and place it into your ~.vim/plugin directory. (create this dir if it does not exist) Add the following lines to your .vimrc

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set nocsverb
if filereadable("cscope.out")
else
    if $ANDROID_BUILD_TOP !=""
        "This assumes you have sourced the Android build environment
        cscope add $ANDROID_BUILD_TOP/cscope.out
 else
        "Or, you can point to your android source directory in $ANDROID_DIR
        cscope add $ANDROID_DIR/cscope.out
    endif
endif

Use the following shell script to create the Android cscope database. You can add/remove search paths based on relevance to you.

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#!/bin/bash

echo "Listing Android files ..."

find "$PWD/bionic"
"$PWD/bootable"
"$PWD/build"
"$PWD/dalvik"
"$PWD/development"
"$PWD/device"
"$PWD/external"
"$PWD/frameworks"
"$PWD/hardware"
"$PWD/packages"
"$PWD/system"
"$PWD/vendor"
-name '*.java' -print -o
-name '*.aidl' -print -o
-name '*.hpp' -print -o
-name '*.cpp'  -print -o
-name '*.xml'  -print -o
-name '*.mk'  -print -o
-name '*.[chxsS]' -print > cscope.files

echo "Listing Kernel files ..."
find  kernel
-path "kernel/arch/*" -prune -o
-path "kernel/tmp*" -prune -o
-path "kernel/Documentation*" -prune -o
-path "kernel/scripts*" -prune -o
-name "*.[chxsS]" -print >> cscope.files

find "$PWD/kernel/arch/arm/include/"
"$PWD/kernel/arch/arm/kernel/"
"$PWD/kernel/arch/arm/common/"
"$PWD/kernel/arch/arm/boot/"
"$PWD/kernel/arch/arm/lib/"
"$PWD/kernel/arch/arm/mm/"
"$PWD/kernel/arch/arm/mach-msm/" -name "*.[chxsS]" -print >> cscope.files

echo "Creating cscope DB ..."
/usr/bin/cscope -b -q -k
echo "Done"
  • Go to your Android source code directory and run the above script
  • source build/envsetup.sh and lunch/choosecombo as usual
  • open vim - your cscope DB should be sourced into this vim instance
  • Run :cs find f filename to go to a file
  • If you want to go to the definition of a symbol, press Ctrl+]
  • If you want to find all references to the token under the cursor, press Ctrl +\ then s
  • If you want to go to the filename under the cursor, press Ctrl +\ then f
  • The other shortcuts are in the cscope_maps.vim that you downloaded above
  • You can also run :cscope help for more help on cscope in vim