More than 90% of Android apps can run on any processor architecture
Android has been a hot topic at Computex Taipei this year, with various players discussing the pros and cons of developing apps for the respective hardware platforms such as ARM or x86. However when it comes to the MIPS platform, CEO and president of MIPS, Sandeep Vij pointed out that in terms of the application universe, well over 90% of the apps that are available in the Android marketplace work on MIPS.
Vij explained that some fragmentation has occurred so there are a small percentage of applications developed with native code that will not work between different chips, but Google is taking this issue quite seriously, making people sign anti-fragmentation agreements. In the Android ecosystem there is a big push to make sure that any app that runs on Android runs on any platform that is able to run Android – x86 to ARM to MIPS – the application should just work. Vij added that MIPS is also working with developers of apps that use native code to port their applications to the MIPS platform and that the process can be as simple as an eight minute recompile.
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