Ebook: Android Application Development for the Intel® Platform

The number of Android devices running on Intel processors has increased since Intel and Google announced, in late 2011, that they would be working together to optimize future versions of Android for Intel Atom processors. Today, Intel processors can be found in Android smartphones and tablets made by some of the top manufacturers of Android devices, such as Samsung, Lenovo, and Asus.

The increase in Android devices featuring Intel processors has created a demand for Android applications optimized for Intel Architecture: Android Application Development for the Intel Platform is the perfect introduction for software engineers and mobile app developers. Through well-designed app samples, code samples and case studies, the book teaches Android application development based on the Intel platformincluding for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devicescovering performance tuning, debugging and optimization.

This book is jointly developed for individual learning by Intel Software College and China Shanghai JiaoTong University.

What youll learn

• Comprehensive introduction to the Intel Embedded and mobile hardware platform
• Android app GUI design principles and guidelines
• Covers the latest Intel Android development tools, including Intel Beacon Mountain version 0.6 and the Intel Compiler
• NDK and C/C++ optimization
• Designing and optimizing for low-power consumption

Who this book is for

The book is primarily for app developers, software engineers and open-source programming enthusiasts, but can also be used by for training programs and Codeacademy-style programs.

About the Author

Ryan Cohen is the contributing editor responsible for leading the international team of content contributors who created this Intel learning resource; he's also an Android enthusiast and Portland State graduate. Ryan has been following Android since 2011 when he made the switch from Apple iOS*. When he is not writing about Android, he spends his time researching anything and everything new in the world of Android.

Tao Wang came to United State as a PhD student at Oregon State University in 1993, and has been a Software Engineer since 2002 with Intel Corporation, where he provides his services as a software engineer in Intel developer zone, and has been technical collateral manager since 2011. He also runs his own mobile app/education-client startup called E-k12 in his part time. Tao has a high interest in application development, testing and debugging and performance optimization for mobile and Android on x86 platforms. He is skilled in many platforms including Android SDK and NDK, Intel Android tools, game engines such as CoCo2d-x, AndEngine and libgdx, Open GLES, Renderscript, and Android Runtime. He has been blogging and writing about Android since 2008, and his other areas of interest include mobile internet technologies such as application development, power efficiency, cloud-based mobile technologies, embedded devices, robotics, and mobile learning on the go.