Release 8 of the Android NDK supports MIPS

Published:2012/5/3 21:19:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

MIPS has been pushing hard to break into the Android space in the past year. And its customers use the Android platform for a plethora of cheaper CE devices, like the $99 tablets featured at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Now, MIPS Technologies Inc. has welcomed Google Inc.’s release of a native development kit (NDK) for Android. The kit supports the MIPS architecture to make developers code for MIPS-based Android devices.

Gideon Intrater, vice president of marketing at MIPS, said the release proved Google’s neutrality with respect to processor architectures, noting that the firm was "excited" by the prospect that Android developers could now "quickly and easily develop high-performance games and apps for MIPS-based smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes and DTVs."

The Release 8 of the Android NDK is now available directly from Google. The NDK includes all the required tools, system headers, libraries and debugging support for MIPS. The firm also says Android apps can be much more easily ported to MIPS-based devices, without having to compromise on performance. However, developers can try out the NDK themselves by downloading it on Google’s Android Developers website.

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