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Lightning Talk Intermediate

Android doesn’t impact general purpsose embedded solutions any more ! - Does it ?

Approved
Session Description

Though Google never solicited, recommended or promoted use of Android in the domains beyond what they officially offered like Mobile, TVs, auto – the engineering community picked Android AOSP, leveraged the Android software stacks & app ecosystem to build successful UI & connectivity centric products.

With the increase in performance of MCUs, easy access to pre-integrated secure/OTA elements, reduced bill of material on RAM, low power and connectivity solutions and above all the availability of open source software with UI frameworks & UI tools - the usage of Android gets limited in general purpose embedded (non-mobile/auto/TV) applications & segments.

Through this this talk let’s understand : the complexity of Android that makes its utilization less efficient in latest SOCs designed for general purpose applications, is Android still influential in Linux & open source ecosystem that caters to embedded world across domains, is there a need & dependency on Android app ecosystem for general purpose applications.

References

https://source.android.com/
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Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Devroom

Speakers

Khasim Syed Mohammed
Director Texas Instruments
Khasim Syed Mohammed

Khasim Syed Mohammed is an open source software evangelist with more than 20 years of industry experience. Khasim has extensively worked on Android since it’s intial stages, lead the teams on early prototyping and profiling of Android for 64 bit architectures, experimenting Android for non-mobile, Android for servers with docker containers, Android for plug n play hardware architectures.

At present, Khasim is employed by Texas Instruments where he and his teams are developing scalable software for TI’s applications processors. The team is heavily involved in defining the upstream first strategy for TI and collaborating with industry in delivering long term stable open source software for auto, industrial and general purpose applications.

Reviews

A lightning talk on call for participation for making Android reusable on embedded systems again.

Reviewer #1 Approved

Requested and agreed with the author to convert to a lightning talk - it seems to be a good one about challenges of using Android in embedded systems.

Reviewer #2 Approved