Android in the Cloud

Android in the Cloud
Chromebooks, BYOD and Wearables
Joel Isaacson
Copyright 2014 Joel Isaacson
joel@ascender.com

Android and Chromebooks
 Android is not likely to be eclipsed in the
foreseeable future, with over 75% share of the
worldwide mobile phone market.
 Google has succeeded in attracting a very
large number of developers to Android.
 Chromebooks are becoming increasingly
popular. Despite their common Google origin
there is as yet no “convergence” between
Chrome OS and Android.
2Android in the CloudAscender Technologies Ltd.

Use Cases
 Ascender’s technology is enabling, and is thus
applicable to different use cases.
 We examine select use cases.
1. Android in the Cloud, Chromebook convergence
2. BYOD, Mobile Enterprise Security
3. Wearable Devices

Use Case 1: Android in the Cloud
 In this use case, the Android application is run
in the cloud on a virtualized host.
 Cloud: An unmodified Android app is installed in
the Android virtual image running in the cloud. The
state of this system is persistent.
 Remote: The remote client can be from a wide
range of systems: Chrome OS, Windows, OS X,
Android, IOS, Tizen, etc. The remote client can be
from a wide range of platforms: desktops,
chromebooks, laptops, tablets, phones or
wearable devices. No data is persistent, resulting
in strong security.

Use Case 1: Android in the Cloud

Use Case 2: BYOD
Mobile Enterprise Security
 Ascender's technology levels the playing field
for the adoption of BYOD devices.
 Cloud: Applications can be written once, for
Android only, and can be run in the cloud under
the control of the enterprise. Hosting in the cloud
intrinsically solves many security problems.
 Mobile Device: Android applications can be
viewed on a wide range of platforms: desktops,
laptops, tablets, phones and even wearable
devices. Windows Phone can be supported by
enterprises as easily as more popular platforms.

Use Case 2: BYOD
Mobile Enterprise Security
 Security is simple to provide since the data
resides in the enterprise cloud.
 Responsibility for mobile device management
rests with the employee since the enterprise
data security management is done in the
cloud.
 Complex device dependent mobile device
management (MDM) is not needed.

Use Case 3: Wearable Devices
 In this configuration, devices that are carried
on the person, or are in close proximity to the
person, communicate.
 The wearable device might have constraints of
computational power, network connectivity
and/or OS compatibility that will make it
difficult to run a desired application.

 Mobile Device: This is a device running the
Android OS, either tablet or phone. Android
Wear apps can be run on the mobile devices.
 Wearable Device: This might be a device
connected to the mobile device via a low
bandwidth connection such as Bluetooth. With
Ascender's technology, even devices that
cannot natively run Android applications, can
use remote Android apps.

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Other Use Cases
 Cloud gaming
 App Library / Subscription Model
 Set-Top Boxes
 Automated Testing
 WebGL Browser Based Implementations

Android VDI
 While there is much experience in Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for Windows,
there is no comparable infrastructure for
remote Android access.
 Most modern VDI technologies use host side
rendering with a codec that compresses
graphic frames at the pixel level.

Ascender Technologies’ Solution
 In contrast to the pixel based approach,
Ascender's remote Android technology
renders at the client side using remote
rendering commands.
 Transmitting the remote graphics at the
rendering level is intrinsically more efficient
than transmitting pixels.
 The resulting data stream is very compressible
while using low computational resources.

Benefits of Ascender's Solution
 Enables cost and computer resource efficient
remote execution of unmodified Android apps
on multiple platforms.
 Enables viewing on the remote client without
performance compromise.
 Enables remote access to a large number of
the 1,000,000+ available Android apps.

 Provides a high graphical frame rate using low
network bandwidth.
 Expands the applicability of Android apps to
many platforms, including Chromebooks.
 Solves the BYOD problem of managing
multiple systems and platforms.
 Reduces cost of cloud hosting:
 Rendering is done on the client side,
 GPU's are not needed on the remote host.

 Typically uses less than 40 KBytes/sec of
network bandwidth:
 full resolution
 low latency
 lossless
 60 frames per second graphic stream.

Links
 Main repository on the technology and FAQ.
 Remote Android rendering
 Short summary
 Full length talk
 The challenge of mobile devices in the
enterprise
 Remote WebGL demo

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