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View all- Lin HLi ZGao DLiu YQian FXu TXiao BQin X(2024)Trinity: High-Performance and Reliable Mobile Emulation through Graphics ProjectionACM Transactions on Computer Systems10.1145/364302942:3-4(1-33)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2024
Binary compatible graphics support in Android for running iOS apps
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Abstract
Mobile apps make extensive use of GPUs on smartphones and tablets to access Web content. To support pervasive Web content, we introduce three key OS techniques for binary graphics compatibility necessary to build a real-world system to run iOS and Android apps together on the same smartphone or tablet. First diplomat usage patterns manage resources to bridge proprietary iOS and Android graphics implementations. Second, thread impersonation allows a single thread-specific context to be shared amongst multiple threads using multiple iOS and Android personas. Third, dynamic library replication allows multiple, independent instances of the same library to be loaded in a single process to support iOS apps on Android while using multiple graphics API versions at the same time. We use these techniques to build a system prototype, and demonstrate that it runs widely-used iOS apps, including apps such as Safari that use the popular GPU-accelerated WebKit framework, using a Google Nexus tablet running Android.
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