With over 2.5 billion active mobile devices, Android is the most popular OS for mobile. Android is supported by an impressive collection of over 2 million applications on the Google Play Store, making it the world’s most popular development platform. Many of these mobile devices are powered by Arm.

The following resource is a collection of the important information about working with Arm hardware on Android. The collection of resources is predominantly from the Android Developer website, but there are also some resources from Arm that can be useful for many types of developers.

Using Neon Intrinsics with Android

Neon Intrinsics - Getting Started on Android

In this article, you will see how to set up Android Studio for native C++ development, and to utilize Neon intrinsics for Arm-powered mobile devices.

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How to Truncate Thresholding and Convolution of a 1D Signal

In this article, you will see an approach that can be easily employed to write efficient code that can be useful for signal and image processing, neural networks, or game applications.

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Arm-related Android resources

Learn the Architecture

Learn how the Arm architecture works with our series of guides. From the fundamentals to more advance concepts.


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Developer Tools

Arm Mobile Studio is a suite of free-to-use tools. These tools help game and app developers to reach more of the mobile market by efficiently optimizing and debugging high-end content for Android devices.

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Graphics and Gaming Development

A collection of resources for application development on Arm Mali GPUs.



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Arm NN

Arm NN is a neural network inference engine for CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. It bridges the gap between existing NN frameworks and the underlying IP.

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Neon

Arm Neon technology is an advanced Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture extension for the Arm Cortex-A and Cortex-R series processors. Including the Arm Neon intrinsic lookup.

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MTE on Android

Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is a key security feature in the Arm architecture. Learn more about the benefits of how to use this new security feature

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64-bit Android development 

64-bit is now compulsory for all new applications on the Google Play Store. Here is what you must know if you are porting existing 32-bit code or writing completely new software to support 64-bit devices.

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Android resources

Android developers

Get started with developing on Android.




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Android NDK

The Android NDK (Native Development Kit) is a toolset that lets you implement parts of your app in native code, using languages such as C and C++.

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AOSP

The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository offers the information and source code required to create custom variants of the Android OS.

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Android documentation

The guides and API reference required for your projects.



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Community Blogs

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MongoDB performance on Arm Neoverse based AWS Graviton2 processors

In this post, we show how the AWS Graviton2 based R6g achieves 117% higher throughput on MongoDB than the x86-based R5.

4 months ago by Julio Suarez
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OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances can significantly reduce video encoding…

In this blog we show how OCI A1 instances provide leading performance per dollar for x264 video encoding.

4 months ago by Steve Demski
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Arm-based OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances beat the latest competition on NG

In this blog we test the performance of OCI A1 Arm-based instances on NGINX Plus compared to competitive offerings.

4 months ago by Steve Demski
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Playing with Virtual Prototypes: Debugging and testing Android games should…

One of the most amazing developments in the last few years has been the explosion in mobile gaming. Not so long ago, if you wanted to while away the time playing a game on your phone there were not many options. Angry Birds was probably the most…

1 years ago by Sam Tennent
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SUSE Rocks in Nashville!

I attended the 2019 edition of SUSE conference. I take you through the the latest developments in enterprise Linux, OpenStack, CEPH and more, from the conference.

2 years ago by P. Robin
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Bringing Armv8.2 Instructions to Android Runtime

Arm Architecture v8.2 features were detailed in 2016. Just two years later, in 2018, flagship Android phones with ARMv8.2 features (Google Pixel3, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S9, etc) started shipping in volume.

2 years ago by Xueliang Zhong
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Answered Assembly language on mobile phone Latest 7 months ago by Ben Clark 2 replies 1885 views
Answered execute code on heap memory (arm, arm64) Latest 7 months ago by Andy Neil 1 replies 1690 views
Answered Help with a hex dump and translation Latest 10 months ago by Daniel5521 5 replies 4120 views