Droidcon India 2013

This session will be an overview of OpenSource Library “Libhybris” - To utilise the GPU and other drivers in Linux System, which is written only for Android and is not compatible with Linux.

Outline

Libhybris load Bionic library and overrides some symbols from bionic with glibc based ones. This will allow to access closed GPU, WiFi, BlueTooth etc.
The talk will be about the working and architecture of “Libhybris” library with some examples running on Cubieboard- an ARM open hardware development platform.

Requirements

Basic Knowledge in Android HAL & Linux. Sound knowledge in “C” Programing.

Speaker bio

Am an OpenSource enthusiast, has been developing softwares and doing research in various domains: Operating Systems, System programming, Application/ User Interface development, Embedded & Mobile computing, text processing & language computing and cloud computing.

Currently, am the Director of Research Lab named as ME-Labs, a Research and Development company working in the domain of Mobile and Embedded Computing.

Links

• Blog : www.sijisunny.com
• Publications and talks : http://sijisunny.com/publications/
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/siji_sunny
• Droidcon-2012 : https://funnel.hasgeek.com/droidcon2012/475-indian-language-app-development-framework-for-android-2-x