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Android Internals

Date: Wednesday, April 13th
Time: 4:40pm
Location: Imperial A

Android is known to have been built on Linux. However, for those who come from a traditional embedded Linux background, Android can be a strange beast. This talk aims at providing insight into Android's main components with an emphasis on how it differs and/or resembles to traditional embedded Linux systems. Topics covered include: overall architecture, system startup, kernel Androidisms, hardware support, native user-space, the Dalvik VM, the JNI bridge, the System Server, the Activity Manager, the Binder mechanism, an overview of stock Android apps and pointers for hacking/modifying Android. Audience: This talk is aimed at developers aiming to build embedded Linux systems that include or are based on Android. It will also benefit developers who already have applications running on (or have developed applications for) embedded Linux that they would like to port over to Android.

 

Karim Yaghmour

Karim J. Yaghmour is part serial entrepreneur part unrepentant geek. He is most widely known for having authored O'Reilly's Building Embedded Linux Systems, which sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and has been translated into several different languages. Karim pioneered the world of Linux tracing by introducing the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) in the late '90s. He continued maintaining LTT through 2005 and was joined in this effort by developers from several companies, including IBM, HP, and Intel. LTT users have included: Google, IBM, HP, Oracle, Alcatel, Nortel, Ericsson, Qualcomm, NASA, Boeing, Airbus, Sony, Samsung, NEC, Fujitsu, SGI, RedHat, Thales, Oerlikon, Bull, Motorola, ARM, ST Micro. Other contributions include relayfs and Adeos. Karim has presented and published as part of a number of peer-reviewed scientific conferences, magazines and online publications, including Usenix, the Linux Kernel Summit, the Ottawa Linux Symposium, LinuxJournal, the O'Reilly Network and the Real-Time Linux Workshop.