Development Environment and Tools for ARM64 (aarch64), Android and Container

Android

• See android devel

Android in Virtual Machine

1. How to Run Android Apps in Linux with AndroVM

   • androvm.org now is GenyMotion

2. GenyMobile owns GenyMotion - Android as a Service

   Cloud-based Android virtual devices to boost your test automation or run your app in your website

   1. PaaS (Virtual images on your cloud provider) - $0.5/hour per VD (+cloud providers fees)
   2. SaaS (Android virtual devices available on SaaS) - Pricing starts at 200$/month

3. Shashlik

   ANDROID APPLICATIONS ON REAL LINUX

   • github

Android in Linux Container

• See android in lxc

Android Emulator in Docker

• See android in docker

ARM32 and ARM64

• ARM Architectures

  • eabi: embedded applicaion binary interface
  • armel: arm eabi little endian, softfp
  • armhf: arm hard float
  • arm64: hard float

• How to run armhf executables on an arm64 system

  • Arm32 support is optional on arm64. In practice, there is only one arm64 CPU that omits legacy arm32 instruction set support - Cavium ThunderX.

• Is there performance advantage to ARM64