Android on MIPS

Driving Android into Mobile Devices and Beyond...MIPS Technologies is bringing the power of the Android™ platform to the vast MIPS® development community across the world. MIPS developers can use this revolutionary platform for consumer devices such as set-top boxes, digital TVs, mobile internet devices (MIDs), mobile handsets, home media players and VoIP systems.

MIPS Technologies is making the Android on MIPS source code publicly available. Click below to visit MIPSAndroid.org where you can access source code and documentation, and join the growing community developing around Android on MIPS!

What is Android?

Android is a rich, ready-to-use software stack that is easily adaptable to different hardware platforms. It includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. With Android and the dynamic open source development community around it, developers can easily and quickly create new applications, and OEMs can leverage the increasingly broad set of available applications for their devices.

Android for Mobile Devices

The Open Handset Alliance™ developed Android as the first complete, open and free mobile platform. The Open Handset Alliance is a group of more than 45 technology and mobile companies working to offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. As a member of the Open Handset Alliance, MIPS Technologies is working with other members to contribute to continued development and success of the Android platform for mobile devices. As part of its relationship with the Open Handset Alliance, MIPS will contribute the Android on MIPS code to the Android Open Source Project. MIPS Technologies' relationship with the Open Handset Alliance complements the work MIPS has already been doing with Android, and offers MIPS developers even more options for next-generation devices.

Driving Android into the Digital Home

MIPS Technologies has a broad ecosystem around its processor cores and architecture. The MIPS ecosystem around Android enables OEMs to quickly optimize for their specific platforms. MIPS' own tools, as well as those from Viosoft and Mentor Graphics, are available to support Android development and porting.

Since Android was originally targeted for mobile handsets, functionality doesn’t exactly match the requirements of other consumer electronic devices such as DTVs and set-top boxes. Much of the functionality must be extended to handle different feature sets and usage models. Leveraging its leadership position in the digital home, MIPS Technologies is spearheading efforts to make Android a reality for a broad range of consumer electronic devices.

Together with our partners and working groups of the Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), an organization focused on driving Android beyond mobile handsets, MIPS Technologies is working to define standardized Android-based platforms for consumer devices.

Android beyond the mobile handset is fast becoming a reality.

Developer Resources

MIPSAndroid.org
On MIPSAndroid.org, developers can join the growing community developing around Android on MIPS. The Android on MIPS community includes:

•Android on MIPS source code for download; plus platform-specific code that can be used to port Android to MIPS' licensee platforms such as Sigma Designs and NetLogic Microsystems
•Guidelines for Android on MIPS optimizations
•A Discussion Forum that provides developers with in-depth support through MIPS technical staff, partners and licensees
Arriba for Android Porting Kit
Developed through MIPS' partnership with Viosoft® Corporation, the Arriba for Android Porting Kit (APK) provides a unique and powerful set of tools to enable OEMs to quickly tailor and optimize Android for their specific platforms. From hardware bring-up through final product deployment, it provides unprecedented visibility into code development that extends the capabilities provided by the Android SDK.

One Common Tree for Driving Android into the Digital Home

We encourage customers and partners to download the source code from MIPSAndroid.org and optimize it for their own platforms; then deliver the code back to the source tree so we can continue to build in one common tree.