Google announces that it will publicly offer RISC-V Android simulator next year.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Coje_He and brother Yi for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 31, according to Google's open source blog, Google announced a series of future support plans for the open source architecture RISC-V on the Android platform, and said it was ready to launch a RISC-V version of Android simulator next year.

▲ source Google blog CTOnews.com learned that at the RISC-V summit held at the end of last year, Google announced plans to make RISC-V a T1-level support architecture for Android, raising the status of RISC-V architecture to the same level as ARM processors.

Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has been accepting RISC-V patches since September last year and has entered a mature stage of support (mature support). Google claims that developers can now build, test and run RISC-V 's Android on their own machines.

▲ source Google blog

Google also said that later this year, developers will be able to debug riscv64 Android applications more easily, and by next year, Google plans to publicly offer a RISC-V version of Android simulator.

▲ source Google blog but at this stage, AOSP's support for RISC-V is still relatively primitive, and the fully optimized back end of Android Runtime (ART) is still under development.