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Android System Programming
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Android System Programming

by Roger Ye
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
10h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to ranchu

With the introduction of Android 5 (Lollipop), the 64-bit hardware architecture is available for both ARM and Intel platforms. However, 64-bit hardware devices for Android were still under development at that time. The only choice for developers was to get a hardware reference platform from silicon vendors.

To help developers test their applications on 64-bit architecture, the engineers at Linaro did an excellent job enabling a virtual hardware platform on QEMU to test ARMv8-A 64-bit architecture. They gave this virtual hardware platform a code name, ranchu. You may refer to the blog at Linaro by Alex Bennée at https://www.linaro.org/blog/core-dump/running-64bit-android-l-qemu/.

This change was adopted by Google later ...

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ISBN: 9781787125360