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BOINC on Android

BOINC on Android. State & Outlook 9th BOINC Workshop, Grenoble 25. September 2013 Joachim Fritzsch Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany. Progress made Feature agenda Projects supporting Android Statistics Challenges. Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013.

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BOINC on Android

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  1. BOINC on Android State & Outlook 9th BOINC Workshop, Grenoble 25. September 2013 Joachim Fritzsch Max Planck Institute forGravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany

  2. Progress made • Feature agenda • Projects supporting Android • Statistics • Challenges Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 Outline BOINC on Android

  3. What has changed? September 2012 September 2013 Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 1. Progress made BOINC on Android

  4. What has changed? • September 2013: • Support for multiple projects Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 1. Progress made BOINC on Android

  5. What has changed? • September 2013: • Support for multiple projects • Support for account managers Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 1. Progress made BOINC on Android

  6. What has changed? • September 2013: • Support for multiple projects • Support for account managers • Simple Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 1. Progress made BOINC on Android

  7. What has changed? • September 2013: • Support for multiple projects • Support for account managers • Simple & advanced preferences Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 1. Progress made BOINC on Android

  8. What has changed? • September 2013: • Support for multiple projects • Support for account managers • Simple & advanced preferences • Slideshow Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 1. Progress made BOINC on Android

  9. What has changed? • September 2013: • Support for multiple projects • Support for account managers • Simple & advanced preferences • Slideshow • Distributed via Google PlayStore [1] Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 1. Progress made BOINC on Android

  10. What would be niceto have? [2] • GoogleTV supportGoogleTV’s Android does not support NDK, yet. BOINC does not support devices without battery. • SD card support Significant number of devices has small (<8 GB) internal storage. • Non-ARM Android devices x86 is striking back. • Other ideas? E.g. game like achievement system, social media integration…. Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 2. Feature agenda BOINC on Android

  11. What projects are using Android? Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 3. Projects supporting Android BOINC on Android

  12. What to do, to get started? Cross compile your science appstoolkit: Android NDKtarget: ARM-Android (potentially also x86 and MIPS architecture) Optimize CPU for capabilitiesplan classes based on CPU ABI, floating point unit (NEON vs. VFP), … Configure serverto deliver Android WUs Help is available! [3] Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 3. Projects supporting Android BOINC on Android

  13. Why? Some numbers: • Google PlayStore: (09/19/13) • 18,330 active users • 41,918 total installs Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 4. Statistics BOINC on Android

  14. Why? Some numbers: • Google PlayStore: (09/19/13) • 4.46 / 5 average rating Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 4. Statistics BOINC on Android

  15. Why? Some numbers: • Project’s point of view: (09/13/13) • Einstein@HOMEBRP4 application • 12,350 WUs weekly • More than Mac OS • 1/5 of Windows or Linux • World Community GridVINA application • 10,979 Android members • 13,741 devices • …returned 700k WUs. Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 4. Statistics BOINC on Android

  16. Getting better… • Many volunteers un-install app quickly 18k active vs. 42k total • Android environment is heterogeneous, high device variety large beta testing group is a good start • Projects can’t be present in stores and advertise “their” app ensure single BOINC client on device Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 5. Challenges BOINC on Android

  17. Thank you for your attention. • Download BOINC from PlayStore, • or join beta testing group at [4] Joachim Fritzsch, 25. Sep 2013 BOINC on Android

  18. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc [2] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AndroidBoincTodo [3] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AndroidBuildApp [4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/boinc-android-testing Joachim Fritzsch, 27. Sep 2012 References BOINC on Android

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