Solution Center for Android

The ARM Solution Center for Android (SCA) offers a centralized resource for the wide range of companies and individuals innovating with the Google Android™ Operating System on the ARM architecture. Connected Community members come together to share their Android expertise, solutions and services, including:

Development Tools
Middleware
Turn Key Solutions
Services
Training

Android Everywhere

The connectivity, application and content frameworks and low power technologies pioneered by the mobile industry and delivered through the Android platform on ARM, are equally relevant across a wide range of product categories. Android is fast becoming a ubiquitous solution for a variety of connected devices.

The choice of ARM as the target architecture for Android is one of the driving factors behind the rapid expansion of Android beyond mobile, enabled by the many ARM silicon partners offering SoC designs for a wide variety of market segments.

Android Expansion

News and Videos

Android for Mobile Computing

Android for Home

Android for Embedded

SCA Ecosystem Membership

News

Adobe announces availability of Adobe AIR for Android on ARM
Adobe announces availability of Flash Player 10.1 for Android 2.2 on ARM
Google Releases Android 2.2 (Froyo)
Android 2.2 Demonstrates Significant Investment in support of the ARM Architecture
ARM announces support for Open Handset Alliance
Introducing Android 1.5 NDK, Release 1
Android 1.5 release
Android Developer Challenge 2
Android port for OMAP 3 processor opens door to Android-powered Palm Pre
Background of the Virtual Machine inside Android

Videos

ARM Powered® Android Products

With dozens of commercial products shipping today, Android on ARM is a proven solution in the smartphone marketplace. As consumers increasingly adopt the Android platform and continue to access more and more of their commercial and personal cloud based content via mobile devices, Android is well positioned to deliver a compelling user experience for a range of connected mobile computing devices, including tablet and netbook devices.

Innovative SCA participants are expanding the capabilities of Android on ARM for a wider range of mobile computing solutions. Android based products in this segment are already available on the market today, including:

Alex Dual Screen eReader
Archos 5 Internet Tablet / Archos 7 Home Tablet
Dell Streak Mobile Internet Device
HP Compaq Airlife 100 Netbook

The rich, ready to use software stack of Android make it a prime choice for extension into the digital home. User Interface (UI) packages, multi-media support, an application framework, and support for web centric content map directly to current and future requirements of the home market segment.

Android for DMA Example

Readily available SoC’s from a range of ARM partners targeting digital home products accelerate reuse of the existing Android code base for home. Android based products on ARM in this market segment include:

At its core, Android is a robust Linux based distribution readily deployed for any range of embedded applications from washing machines to automotive infotainment. The ability to leverage the wide ecosystem of existing Linux and open source targeted tools and middleware offers powerful versatility to the Android software stack.

Just a few examples of tools and kits include:

Touch Revolution NIMble NIM1000 Touch Module
Mentor Graphics EDGE^™ SimTest for Android
Mentor Graphics Inflexion UI Designer for Android
Viosoft Arriba Android Porting Kit
Beagle board project

Please also checkout the Getting Started with Android page for additional detail on Android reference platforms and development kits from various ARM SoC vendors.