The Android™ Builders Summit is a technical summit for OEMs, their device manufacturers, integrators, custom builders, and the growing Android and Linux Kernel developer communities. Android is expanding to an increasing number of industry segments in addition to smart phones and tablets. There is a need for the ecosystem of builders to collaborate on a common solution for existing limitations and desired features across all of these device categories. The Android Builders Summit provides an intimate forum for collaboration at the systems level and discussion of core issues and opportunities when designing Android devices. The summit addresses topics ranging from custom builds, alternative middleware, network functionality extensions, Peer to Peer frameworks, USB device support, security, unification of power management, tools and hybrid Android devices among many other topics.
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Linux has been used in embedded systems for quite some time now. "Embedded" in fact represents a substantial part of Linux's use. Lately, however, Android has been getting a lot of attention in the embedded world too. At its simplest, Android is a shrink-wrapped embedded Linux distro that has a stable, consistent API, a growing developer community and ODM-friendly licensing. What does that mean for what we've known as embedded Linux? Could Android's benefits make Android the default building block for Linux-based embedded systems? Or will it coexist with what's already there? Either way, what does Android's entry in the embedded space mean for the wider embedded Linux community, and, for that matter, Linux itself?
