#Android ndk for both arm and intel android

I'm still very skeptical about the overall experience but we'll have to wait and see for ourselves. armeabi This is the default option, which should be compatible with all ARM. Binary translation is typically noticeably slower than running native code, although Intel is unsurprisingly optimistic about the experience on Android. Intel isn't disclosing much about the solution, but by intercepting ARM binaries and translating ARM code to x86 code on the fly during execution Intel is hoping to achieve ~90% app compatibility at launch.

#Android ndk for both arm and intel android

The presumption is that eventually this will be a non-issue (described above), but what do users of the first x86 Android phones do? Two words: binary translation. Intel believes that roughly 75% of all Android apps in the Market don't feature any native ARM code.

virtually anything CPU intensive like a 3D game). Where Intel will have a problem is with apps that do call native libraries or apps that are ARM native (e.g. As long as the apps are calling Android libraries that aren't native ARM there, once again, shouldn't be a problem. but actually all the implementations I have seen are only on ARM (or arm compatible). Android claims to support MIPS, ARM, X86 and others.

Obviously the first party apps already work on x86, but what about those in the Market?īy default all Android apps run in a VM and are thus processor architecture agnostic. The NDK seems a good route to take but actually I dont want to miss a platform (if it is a considerable of the market) just because the NDK doesnt or wont support it. There's already support for targeting both ARM and x86 architectures in the Android NDK so anything developed going forward should be ok so long as the developer is aware of x86. The bigger problem is application compatibility. The OS isn't an issue as it has already been ported to x86 and all further releases will be available in both ARM and x86 flavors. Similar to Apple's move from PowerPC to x86, Intel finds itself in a difficult position with bringing Atom to Android. For both ARM and Intels own Atom processor-based devices, the suite supports Android v4.1 and 4.2 (supporting API levels 17+), and runs on Microsoft Windows 7.