Android on x86: An Introduction to Optimizing for Intel® Architecture

Book Description:

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.