Android devlopment for Nvidia devices

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Hello,
I would like to know how can I utilize Nvidia technologies in my Android project?

As Android is a an OS and Nvidia provides processing units namely Nvidia Tegra 2 and Nvidia Tegra 3,
If I develop an application for non Nvidia processor device, will there be any performance issue to run it on a Nvidia Tegra 2 or Tegra 3 device?

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while you can always optimize for a specific hardware platform, tegra provides better or at worst comparable performance in most real-world situations

grab tadp (http://developer.nvidia.com/tadp) and start developing!

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I just need to do kernel development; I am not doing any app development (yet). All of the materials I have seen thus far for Nvidia seem centered on application development.
I am developing on a Kai tablet (Android version 4.1.1, Kernel version 3.1.10): how would I go about rebuilding the kernel for this? Just use stock Android Jelly Bean from google? If so, what release & manifest?

Thanks,
David

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Hi David -

You should be able to acquire kernel sources for Kai from whomever you obtained the Kai device from.

If this is impossible, a Nexus7 might be a better development platform for you as the sources are available for that.

Cheers!

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You can just simply get the device name using InputDevice from android instead of using CPU name…
That’s what I did on my project.
Hope this help.