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Since its official public release, Android has captured
the interest from companies, developers and the general
audience. From that time up to now, this software platform
has been constantly improved either in terms of features or
supported hardware and, at the same time, extended to new
types of devices different from the originally intended mobile
ones. However, there is a feature that has not been explored
yet - its real-time capabilities.
This paper intends to explore this gap and provide a basis
for discussion on the suitability of Android in order to be used
in Open Real-Time environments. By analysing the software
platform, with the main focus on the virtual machine and its
underlying operating system environments, we are able to point
out its current limitations and, therefore, provide a hint on
different perspectives of directions in order to make Android
suitable for these environments.
It is our position that Android may provide a suitable
architecture for real-time embedded systems, but the real-time
community should address its limitations in a joint effort at
all of the platform layers.
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Open real-time systems Embedded systems Android