ARM Community: Together We Enable Android on ARM Innovation - ARM Community

I was travelling in Japan a few weeks ago attending the Embedded Technology Trade Show. There were two things that impressed me - what little the girls wear in winter and how many partners support Android…And I was pleased to find out that within these Android partners, many of them have ARM solutions too. So I invited them to join the ARM Solution Center for Android (SCA) which is a resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android. Today we have more than 45 Partners of the ARM Connected Community that have joined this initiative since it was launched in November. More than 10 Partners have already posted their Android resources such as whitepapers, videos and solutions slides on our SCA homepage. Below, I’ve highlighted some of my favorites.

Below is an Android videos from VisualOn which highlights the performance difference between the default multimedia framework shipped with the Android software stack and VisualOn’s Android solution known as VOME (VisualOn Media Engine) based on an HTC G2 with a Qualcomm ARM11 processor. It shows the user the playback of a music video with default Android multimedia solution highlighting some of the known performance issues. The same music video clip is then playback for the end user with VisualOn’s Android solution (VOME) which results in significant performance improvements while maintaining all the standard JAVA APIs.

VisualOn


Following is another video from Mistral Solutions that features a demo of Android on Mistral’s new OMAP3 EVM Rev-G Board. This is based on TI’s OMAP3530 Processorwith ARM’s Cortex-A8 processor. The demo showcases some of the interesting features of Android and their performance on the OMAP3 EVM:

• Booting Android on the OMAP3 EVM out of an SD/MMC card
• Android’s support for OpenGL ES 1.0 Demonstrates how the powerful ARM Cortex core on the OMAP3530 enhances the rendering of 3D graphics
• Web browsing capability on the Android enabled EVM
• Media Player demo shows a movie encoded in H.263 format; decoded and played using Android’s native codecs, executing on the ARM processor

Mistral


These Videos are not enough for you? Find more resources on the SCA page at http://www.arm.com/solution-center-android/. We look forward to providing more updates on Android on ARM. Please contact us to promote your Android on ARM solution at connected@arm.com.

Jenny Su, Partnership Marketing Specialist, ARM Connected Community, is based in Cambridge. One of her favourite things to do is to work with hundreds of partners around the world and find ways to better help designers have a premium experience on designing with ARM architecture.

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