Introduction to Android x86 platform

Dushyantsinh Jadeja Software Business Manager – APAC

Intel India

Premchander Rao Application Engineering Lead

Intel India

COMPUTING is about

EXPERIENCES

Delivered by Your Software

Across Devices

Across OSs

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Desktops

Laptops

Embedded

Smartphones

Smart TVs

Netbooks

Servers

Millions of developers worldwide - Billions of dollars of SW revenue

Tablets

The Intel Software Ecosystem

Lava XOLO Lenovo LePhone K800 The Orange San Diego

MegaFon Mint Motorola RAZR I

There are some cool IA devices in the market today and many

more to come in near future!

Opportunities for Differentiation

Deliver energy efficient performance and long battery life

Develop compelling touch and sensor usages

Performance

New Usages

Think of multi-device and connected experience

Power

Graphics

Android on Intel Architecture

http://01.org/ - Intel’s Open Source Technology Center

Porting to IA – Tools and Resources

Faster Emulation for any Android developer using an IA-based host PC

Pre-built Atom Images • Android SDK manager has x86 emulation

images built-in

• To emulate an Atom-based Android phone,

install the “Intel Atom x86 System Image”

available in the Android SDK Manager

Much Faster Emulation • Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager

(HAXM) for Mac and Windows uses Intel®

Virtualization Technology (VT) to accelerate

Android emulator by 2-4x

• Intel VT is already supported in Linux* (KVM)

for x86.

See www.intel.com/software/android for demo videos & installation tips

Applications Enabling on Atom - Dalvik

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• The majority of Android apps are Dalvik apps

– Intel’s extensive experience in optimizing Java VMs has been applied to Dalvik VM.

• IA-optimized x86 fast interpreter is part of AOSP mainline and actively maintained

• IA-optimized Trace JIT compiler yields significant performance gains

• Intel continues to invest heavily in Dalvik VM optimizations

• x86 Native Code Generation (NCG) for aggressive compiler optimizations

• Increased performance for CPU- and graphic-intensives apps

• Continued optimizations for memory management

Android Runtime

Core Libraries

Dalvik Virtual Machine

Apps written in Dalvik Java should run “as is”

Applications Enabling on Atom - NDK

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Android App with no Native Code

Android Manifest

Dalvik optimized Java Classes

Resources

Android App with Native Code

Android Manifest

Dalvik optimized Java

Classes

Resources

JNI/Native code libraries

• Google added x86 NDK support in Android NDK in July 2011

• Straightforward recompile (with NDK) and repackage (with SDK) for most existing NDK apps

– Unless the native code uses ARM-specific features, porting the app = simple recompile

– If the app uses ARM-specific features

• Must add equivalent x86-specific function calls but can still maintain a single code base and apk for x86 and ARM if desired (“Fat” apk)

Porting Native C, C++ Apps usually just a recompile

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Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzer

Helping you unlock power of the Platform

Intel® Software Partner Program

Intel® Developer Zone

Global Communities for

Software Development

and Business

Technical Documentation,

Guides, Support Forums

Development Tools,

Code Samples, SDKs

Trends and Insights

Sales and Marketing

Resources

intel.com/software

Take Advantage of the Opportunity to differentiate on Intel Architecture

ISV Opportunity ISV Deliverable

• Create and Port native applications and optimize for Intel Atom based phones running Android

• Applications validated on Intel SDP’s and OEM devices

• Release application for revenue to Android Market – Google play

• Align with Intel on marketing and OEM bundling.

• Optimize your software to run great on Intel Atom based phones with development support from Intel

• Software Development Platforms

• Engineering Support

• Go To Market through matchmaking with customers with potential bundling opportunities

• Act on revenue opportunity

• Participte in other opportunities: industry events, PR, marketing.

Join us in creating the Next Generation Computing Experience

• There are some cool IA devices in the market today and

many more to come in near future!

• App Development Opportunity for IA Devices

• State of the Art x86 Development Tools

• Resources and Support to build Apps on Intel

Architecture are easily available

Thank you