ARM Community: ARM Webinar: Enabling multiple-segment Android based devices - ARM Community

Are you curious about Android on ARM? Are you interested in learning about the broad applications that Android is deployed (it’s not just mobile)? Then I invite you to join a webinar tomorrow (Tuesday May 25 11 am PDT) on Android and ARM by my colleagues Rod Crawford, principal software engineer and Jim Wallace, director of Home segment marketing. They are both well versed in the current Android trends. I invite you to come ask them a tough question (just don’t tell them I sent you:)


The momentum behind Android across a multitude of connected consumer devices continues to grow. The ARM ecosystem Partners have found that the connectivity, application and content frameworks in conjunction with low power technologies, pioneered by the mobile industry and delivered through the Android platform on ARM, are equally relevant across a wider range of both mobile and non-mobile products. This webinar will take you though the applicability of Android in a multitude of end devices and the functionality differentiation an Android based solution can bring. It will also guide you through what is available to help start your development.

Key topics:
Android is fast becoming a ubiquitous solution across a multitude of connected consumer ARM-Powered^® devices from mobile phones to tablets and netbooks to Digital Media Adaptors and DTVs.

The ARM Android Ecosystem:

• The Solution Centre for Android (SCA) now has over 70 members delivering a wide range of solutions across a diverse set of market segments, including many targeted directly at the home segment. Large screen support, UI frameworks and multimedia content databases are just a few examples of enhancements to Android you'll find from SCA partners.
• SCA partners come together to share their expertise, solutions and services, including:
  - Complete Android solutions
  - Android software components
  - Android services
  - Development tools
  - Android trainings

ARM Partners and the Android roadmap:

• ARM is a key Google technology partner for Android development, and together with the larger ARM partner base, have contributed significant optimizations to each Android release from Cupcake to the latest Froyo release
• Key features of Android focused and optimized for ARM-based SoCs
  -The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets Android application developers build performance-critical parts of their applications in native code.
  - The Dalvik Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler that targets the ARM Instruction Set significantly improves compute intensive Java applications while maintaining a minimal memory footprint.
  - The Froyo release provides support for Adobe Flash 10.1 enabling the Flash Platform to be delivered across multiple Android Devices.

What you will learn:

• An update on the board range of market segments and applications where Android is being deployed
• Examples and use cases highlighting how Android can be adopted across a multitude of devices and the functionality which can be extended to handle different feature sets and usage models
• Where to go to for help

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