At the recent “RISC-V Summit” summit, Google Android Engineering Director Lars Bergstrom mentioned Android’s vision for RISC-V architecture support.he saidHope RISC-V becomes the “tier-1” architecture platform supported by Android (tier-1 platform)which is consistent with the level of support for Arm.

It can be seen that Google’s support for RISC-V has changed dramatically. After all, six months ago, Bergstrom said that optimizing Android builds on RISC-V would take “a lot of work,” and outlined a roadmap that would take “a few years” to get there. However, AOSP’s support for RISC-V is very active. In September last year, AOSP Merged the first RISC-V architecture port related code patches. Now anyone can try out the “riscv64” fork of Android.

If Google successfully gets Android up and running on RISC-V, it’s only natural that phone makers and the app ecosystem will follow to support the RISC-V platform.

Bergstrom also mentioned initial emulator support in early 2023, and Android RunTime (ART) support for Java workloads in the first quarter. This means that when ART supports RISC-V, most of the ecology of Android applications will also be improved.