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Introducing Beacon Mountain v0.5 for Android* application development
Beacon Mountain v0.5 provides development environment setup and maintenance for creating native Android* applications. Beacon Mountain runs on 64-bit host development systems running Microsoft* Windows 7 and 8 with support for Apple* OS X systems targeted for release by the end of June. Beacon Mountain provides installation of common third-party tools, along with Intel tools.

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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21-Jan-2013
8:27 AM PST

Android* 4.2 (Jelly Bean) x86 Emulator System Image

By Admin0

The x86 Android* 4.2 (Jelly Bean) emulator system image enables you to run an emulation of Android on your development machine. In combination with the Android SDK, you can test your Android applications on a virtual Android device based on Intel Architecture. In order to install the emulator . . .

15-Jan-2013
3:22 PM PST

Intel® GPA Tip: Issues when using Intel GPA 2012 R5 with Android* SDK

By Neal P (Intel)2

This article discusses an incompatibility between Intel GPA 2012 R5 and the latest Android* platform tools release (R16+) for WIndows OS*, and provides a workaround for customers needing to analyze and optimize on this platform.

18-Dec-2012
10:08 AM PST

Porting OpenGL* Games to Android* on Intel® Atom™ Processors (part 2)

By Admin0

This article, the continuation of a two-part series, discusses the barriers that exist to porting OpenGL games to the Google Android platform. You should recognize these barriers before undertaking a game porting project, including differences in OpenGL extensions, floating-point support, texture . . .

18-Dec-2012
9:12 AM PST

Porting OpenGL* Games to Android* on Intel® Atom™ Processors (part 1)

By Admin0

Great opportunity exists in porting games and other applications that make extensive use of 3D graphics through OpenGL standards to Google Android devices, including those built on the Intel® Atom™ microarchitecture because of the availability of games, game engines, and other legacy software . . .

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Intel Android* at MWC 2013: New 4G Intel Mobile LTE Modem Intel XMM 7160

By Tao Wang (Intel)Posted March 7th 20130

Last week at MWC, while most of the attention at Intel's booth was on Intel's cell phones and tablets, a lot of attentions were given to Intel's new low-power, multimode-multiband 4G LTE modem, XMM 7160. This is because many operators are moving to 4G and the LTE standard, and Intel needed a 4G ...

Cross-Platform Development: What The Stats Say

By Wendy Boswell (...Posted March 7th 20130

Cross-platform development is something that is only going to gain more momentum as manufacturers continue to build a wide variety of consumer devices. Tools and frameworks that make cross-platform development as streamlined as possible are invaluable for developers – and it’s not only the big ...

Role of NFC in the future of Digital Wallet

By Sunil Jain, (Intel)Posted March 1st 20130

“Since the beginning of a barter economy on our planet, personal Wallet seems to have remained stuck in the leather and bone ages, literally. I believe: Wallet is the next frontier for Enterprise and the next killer App for Mobile. Digitization of wallet is inevitable. Since Near Field ...

Intel Android* at MWC 2013

By Tao Wang (Intel)Posted February 20th 20130

WHEN: Feb. 25 – 28, 2013 WHERE: Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain Intel Booth: Hall 3, Booth #3C34 Intel in App Planet: Hall 8.2, Booth #8.1E20 WHAT:Intel Corporation will showcase leading mobile and communications solutions at Mobile World Congress 2013. In addition to the main Intel booth, the ...

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Android* Applications on Intel® Architecture

Ask questions and get help developing Android* applications on Intel® architecture.

Sergey KostrovSun, February 17th 2013 - 12:39

Samsung released Android 4.1.1 ( Jelly Bean ) and it is available for download ( update )!3

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 ( 7" or 9" ) tablet owners, Do you know that Samsung released Android 4.1.1 ( Jelly Bean ) and it is available for download ( update )? My first impressions after I've updated my Galaxy Tab 2 7" ( from Android 4.0.1 ( Ice Cream Sandwich ) to Android 4.1.1 ) are very positive: ...

Steven B.Wed, February 13th 2013 - 6:26

Driver Medfield XT8904

Hello, Sorry for approximate English!!! Sorry of you bothered but here is my problem.I purchased 1 month ago of a phone of type XT 890 of Motorola under processor intel.Further to it, I wanted to begin to create applications.Unfortunately, I have what we call brické my phone and that this do not ...

Gyula H.Wed, February 6th 2013 - 23:22

System development to Intel Atom based mobile phones2

Hy! We are trying to build AOSP based system, and custom kernel to our Intel Atom based mobile phones, like ZTE Grand X In. I just tried all of avalible sources, like Intel-3.0-mid source from AOSP, 4.0.4/4.1.1 SDK sources, etc, but I can't manage to boot up the kernel and ROM neither. I know, some ...

JudLup LunaSun, January 27th 2013 - 22:15

Android random function6

Hi, I'm learning to developer on android, and I'm making a exercise of Sharedpreferences, but I don't know how to generate a random number and show into textview on my app.