Qualcomm previously announced a collaboration with Google to create a Wear OS-compatible, RISC-V-basedSmart wearable solutionsAfterwards, Google announced its future development plan to enable the Android platform to support the RISC-V open source architecture.
Google first announced at the RISC-V Summit event at the end of last year that it would make the RISC-V open source architecture a T1-level supported design for the Android platform, placing it on the same level as the Arm architecture. This means that the Android platform will be further compatible with the RISC-V open source architecture in the future, and it has even recently entered the mature support stage.
In this announcement, Google stated that it will launch an Android emulator corresponding to the RISC-V open source architecture in 2024, allowing more developers and businesses to create more application products that use RISC-V open source architecture processors, while also expanding the application scope of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
Currently, support for the RISC-V open source architecture is still in its early stages within the Android Open Source Project. In particular, background optimizations for the Android Runtime (ART) thread are still under development. Therefore, we likely won't see Android phones powered by RISC-V processors in the near future, but it may not be too long.
