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Android* Application Development and Optimization on the Intel® Atom™ Platform
This paper introduces detailed methods for developing and porting an Android application on the Intel Atom platform, and discusses the best known methods for developing applications using the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) and optimizing performance. Android developers can use this document as a reference to build high quality applications for the Intel Architecture.

Creating and Porting NDK based Android* Apps for Intel® Architecture
This article is a beginner’s introduction to creating native (NDK based) Android* applications for Intel® architecture (IA) based devices, and also includes simple use cases for porting existing NDK based apps to IA based devices.

Installing the Android* SDK for Intel® Architecture
The SDK includes tools and platform components for developers to build, test, and debug their Android* applications, and manage the Android* platform component installation. The SDK also provides easy ways to integrate with the build and development environments, for examples, with Eclipse* or Apache Ant*.

Intel® Atom™ x86 Image for Android Jelly Bean 4.2 Installation Instructions
This document will guide you through installing the Intel® Atom™ x86 image for Android* Jelly Bean, which can be used for development on Intel’s x86 architecture.

Graphics Acceleration for HTML5 and Java Script Engine JIT Optimization for Mobile Devices
This article first introduces the challenges caused by HTML5 in terms of performance. As the rendering engine and JavaScript engine are two key fundamental building blocks of web runtime, it then discusses our solution of graphics acceleration and just-in-time (JIT) optimization applied to the Intel® Atom™ platform to dramatically improve the performance of these two components respectively.

Google Play Supports CPU Architecture Filtering For Multiple APK
The Google Play Developers Console now supports CPU architecture (ABI) as filter criteria for Multiple APKs.

Implementing Touchscreen Interfaces for New and Existing Games
The proliferation of Android* devices has opened a new world for game development, bringing with it both the touchscreen's “magical” sense of interaction, along with a raft of new challenges for designers.

Software Developer’s Guide for Sensors on Intel Atom based Android* Tablets
This guide provides an introduction to the Android Sensor framework and discusses how to use some of the sensors on a typical Intel® Atom™ tablet.

Android* System-Level Java*/C++ Code Debugging
Android* SDK allows application developers to create Android application projects, build them, and debug them using Eclipse*. But it doesn’t provide a facility to debug the system-level Java*/C++ code. This document describes how to debug Android system-level Java/C++ code.

The Development of Mobile Applications using HTML5 and PhoneGap* on Intel® Architecture-Based Platforms
How HTML5 and PhoneGap* can help with cross-platform development. See sample applications showing how to develop mobile applications that provide a rich UI while tapping into the hardware capabilities of the platform.

How to debug an App for Android* x86 and the tools to use
This article provides a walk-through of Android application debugging tools and guidelines to help developers to get up to speed faster and resolve defects more effectively on Android x86 platform.

Debugging Android* OS running on Intel® Atom™ Processor via JTAG
This article highlights the usage model of JTAG based system debuggers for analyzing and fixing Andoid* OS kernel and device driver code. How to reuse the same methods established for other Linux* OS based designs on Intel® Atom™ processors.

Remote Application Debug on Android* OS
Learn how to use and configure the Android* Debug Bridge (ADB) along with GDB or the ADT Plugin for Eclipse to debug your Intel® architecture targeted application running on an Android* Virtual Device (AVD) emulation or physical Intel® Atom™ Processor based target device.

Android* 4.2 (Jelly Bean) x86 Emulator System Image
Use this x86 emulator system image with the Android SDK to test your Android apps on a virtual Intel Architecture-based device.

Android* 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) x86 Emulator System Image
Use this x86 emulator system image with the Android SDK to test your Android apps on a virtual Intel Architecture-based device.

Android* 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) x86 Emulator System Image
Use this x86 emulator system image with the Android SDK to test your Android apps on a virtual Intel Architecture-based device.

Android* 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) x86 Emulator Image Add-on
Use this x86 emulator image add-on with the Android SDK to test your Android applications on a virtual Intel Architecture-based phone device.

Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager
This hardware-assisted virtualization engine uses Intel® Virtualization Technology to speed up Android app emulation on a host machine.

Intel® USB Driver for Android* Devices
The Intel USB Driver package enables you to connect your Windows* based machine to your Android device that contains an Intel Atom processor inside.

Intel® GPA: Support of the Google* Android* Platform
Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA) is a suite of graphics analysis and optimization tools that helps game developers make their graphics-intensive applications run even faster. Android* OS developers targeting Intel® Atom™ processor-based phones get a real-time view of over two dozen critical system metrics covering power, the CPU/GPU, and OpenGL-ES*. Also, use Intel GPA to run graphics pipeline experiments that quickly isolate graphics bottlenecks.

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25-Apr-2013
10:50 AM PDT
Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager 1.0.6 (R3)
By Admin0
Last Updated April 25, 2013 The Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM) is a hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor) that uses Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) to speed up Android app emulation on a host machine. In combination with . . .
22-Apr-2013
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How to Install Intel® USB Driver for Android* Devices on Windows* 8
By Ural (Intel)0
Symptoms: When you try to install the Intel® USB Driver for Android on a Windows 8 machine, the setup program encounters an error condition, stops, and displays the message shown below.  Resolution: You will have to run this exe in compatibility mode. Download the installable from . . .
08-Apr-2013
3:12 PM PDT
Intel® USB Driver for Android* Devices
By Tao Wang (Intel)12
The Intel Android USB Driver package will enable you to connect your Windows* based machine to your Android device that contains an Intel Atom processor inside. Note: The Intel USB Driver package version 1.1.5 is designed for Android App developer usage with added support of Microsoft Windows* 8. . . .
05-Apr-2013
12:42 PM PDT
Intel HTML5 Porter Tool Introduction for Android Developer
By Admin0
by Roman Kazantsev 1. About the tool The Intel® HTML5 App Porter Tool is an application that helps mobile application developers to port native iOS* code to HTML5 by automatically translating portions of the iOS code into HTML5. This tool does not automatically port 100% of iOS applications, but . . .

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Welcome to the Android* Applications on Intel Architecture Forum!27
Welcome to the newest forum on Intel Software Network, dedicated to helping developers of Android Applications get the most out of running on Intel architecture. You can find more info at our home page for Android on Intel, and please feel free to ...
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How to make sure my Android app runs on Intel phones?10
can you tell me What steps should I take to make sure my app runs fine on such Intel-powered devices? Note:I don't have such a phone to perform tests.
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Purchasing a decent Android development platform1
OK, software emulation even with a fast CPU and lots of RAM isn't going to get it for me so I need a hardware or a hardware supported solution.  Intel CPU and VT--x looks promising.  Problem is I need to travel with the development system and gaming laptops with add-on GPU support is out of my ...

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