diff --git a/docs/src/SUMMARY.md b/docs/src/SUMMARY.md
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@@ -3,4 +3,7 @@
 - [Introduction](./README.md)
 
 - [Overview](./overview/README.md)
+
 - [Getting Started](./getting-started/README.md)
+
+- [Building the OS](./getting-started/building-the-os.md)
diff --git a/docs/src/getting-started/README.md b/docs/src/getting-started/README.md
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@@ -1 +1,41 @@
 # Getting Started
+
+## Install Android Studio
+
+Most development, at least starting out, will be on the 3
+android applications that form the core of the starknet
+phone: light client, wallet, and browser.
+
+Installing the build:
+
+1. Install [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio/install).
+1. Create a new pixel device with the latest android SDK. Follow the
+
+instructions [here](https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds)
+
+1. Create a fork of this repository, and open the application in Android Studio.
+1. Refer to the [contribution guide](<>) for any contributions.
+
+## Installing on an emulator
+
+NOTE: We are still working to provide an image for download. For now,
+development on any of the applications can be done on a generic android OS.
+
+Steps to install on an emulator:
+
+1. Download a zip file of the image.
+1. Make sure [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio/install) is installed.
+1. Navigate to the Android SDK install location. On mac this default to `Library/Android/sdk`
+
+```bash
+cd Library/Android/sdk
+```
+
+Create a new directory called "android-32", and inside that directory create
+a new directory called "default"
+
+```bash
+mkdir android-32/default
+```
+
+Extract the zip file of the OS image to the newly created "default" directory
diff --git a/docs/src/getting-started/building-the-os.md b/docs/src/getting-started/building-the-os.md
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+# Building the OS
+
+## Build Dependencies
+
+Baseline build dependencies:
+
+- x86_64 Linux build environment.
+- 32GiB of memory or more. Link-Time Optimization (LTO) creates huge peaks
+  during linking and is mandatory for Control Flow Integrity (CFI). Linking
+  Vanadium (Chromium) and the Linux kernel with LTO + CFI are the most memory
+  demanding tasks.
+- 100GiB+ of additional free storage space for a typical build of the entire
+  OS for a multiarch device.
+
+More detailed dependiencies and build guide can be found
+[here](https://grapheneos.org/build)
+
+## Downloading the source code
+
+### Development Branch
+
+Starknet Phone forks the '14' branch of grapheneOS, which is the main
+development branch of GrapheneOS.
+
+```bash
+mkdir starknet-phone-os
+cd starknet-phone-os
+repo init -u \
+https://github.com/suffix-labs/snphone_platform_manifest/tree/14 -b 14
+repo sync -j8
+```
+
+### Emulator builds
+
+NOTE: must be done from bash or zsh
+
+set up build environment
+
+```bash
+source build/envsetup.sh
+```
+
+set the build target
+
+```bash
+lunch sdk_phone64_x86_64-cur-eng
+```
+
+start the build. This can take multiple hours to run.
+
+```bash
+m
+```
+
+### Adding prebuilt binaries
+
+#### Emulator
+
+sync repo
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p android/kernel/6.1
+cd android/kernel/6.1
+repo init -u https://github.com/GrapheneOS/kernel_manifest-6.1.git -b 14
+repo sync -j8
+```
+
+build the kernel image and modules for the emulator
+
+```bash
+ARCH=x86_64 common/build_virt.sh
+```
+
+replace the prebuilts in the OS source tree
+
+```bash
+ANDROID_BUILD_TOP=~/starknet-phone-os ARCH=x86_64 common/update_virt_prebuilts.sh
+```
diff --git a/docs/src/resources/README.md b/docs/src/resources/README.md
index fc99768..540950f 100644
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@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
+# Resources
 
-## Resources
-
-### Ethereum Phone
+## Ethereum Phone
 
 [Ethereum Phone platform manifest](https://github.com/EthereumPhone/platform_manifest)
-
 [wallet sdk](https://github.com/EthereumPhone/WalletSDK)
-
 [light node app](https://github.com/EthereumPhone/lightnodeapp)
 
-### GrapheneOS
+## GrapheneOS
 
 [GrapheneOS Docs](https://grapheneos.org/build#build-dependencies)
-
 [building graphene os](https://grapheneos.org/build)