LinuxCon Japan 2011 | Presentations

IPC of Android Using Binder

Date: Friday, June 3rd
Time: 9:00am
Location: Room 411/412

Android systems have a unique IPC (Inter Process Communication) mechanism, which uses a special kernel driver called "binder". In studying the Android source code, we researched: how remote method invocation works in Android; why a special kernel driver is required; and compared Unix-domain socket and binder. This presentation will share the answers to these questions and more. The audience should be kernel developers or Android system developers who would like to know more about the inner-workings of Android.

Tetsuyuki Kobayashi, Kyoto Microcomputer

Tetsuyuki Kobayashi is 20+ years expercienced engineer working on embedded system development. For the first 10 years he developed RTOS (the Real time OS) from scratch and used that in many projects such as measurement system, laser beam printer and digital multifunction copier. At the next 10 years he developed Java virtual machine for embedded system. He tuned up byte code interpreter and garbage collector, also developed prototype of JIT compiler. Now he belongs Kyoto Microcomputer, which is Japanese development tool vender. He is working in gcc, linux, QEMU, Android and so on.