Google is developing a system called MicroDroid. As per the submission instructions, MicroDroid will be used in a virtual device and is designed as a ‘simplified version of the General Android System Image (GSI)’.
GSI is already an open-source Android barebones system, but MicroDroid seems to be more streamlined.
According to the news, the goal of the project may be to allow the minimum required Android system to run on top of the hypervisor in order to allow the virtualization of a single Android application, rather than providing a complete auxiliary desktop environment.
Google may be to enable virtualization on Android hardware to improve security. Google said it can isolate data between applications and operating systems on the same device, and it can switch between isolated operating systems instantly without performance degradation.
However, according to foreign media, MicroDroid may need to be utilized with the new Type-1 Hypervisor component of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888.
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