Android on x86: an Introduction to Optimizing for Intel® Architecture serves two main purposes.
First it makes the case for adapting your applications onto Intel's x86 architecture
including discussions of the business potential the changing landscape of the Android
marketplace and the unique challenges and opportunities that arise from x86 devices. The
fundamental idea is that extending your applications to support x86 or creating new ones is not
difficult but it is imperative to know all of the technicalities. This book is dedicated to
providing you with an awareness of these nuances and an understanding of how to tackle them.
Second and most importantly this book provides a one-stop detailed resource for best
practices and procedures associated with the installation issues hardware optimization issues
software requirements programming tasks and performance optimizations that emerge when
developers consider the x86 Android devices. Optimization discussions dive into native code
hardware acceleration and advanced profiling of multimedia applications. The authors have
collected this information so that you can use the book as a guide for the specific
requirements of each application project. This book is not dedicated solely to code instead it
is filled with the information you need in order to take advantage of x86 architecture. It will
guide you through installing the Android SDK for Intel Architecture help you understand the
differences and similarities between processor architectures available in Android devices
teach you to create and port applications debug existing x86 applications offer solutions for
NDK and C++ optimizations and introduce the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager. This
book provides the most useful information to help you get the job done quickly while utilizing
best practices.
