Artfully Embedded Android

We took Android and embedded it into the first ever display for art. Electric Objects is building the next class of Android devices - persistent displays for all the beautiful digital artwork in your life.

We'll talk about the challenges of digital art, and what strides we're making in engineering GIF and graphics performance on an embedded device.

This is a talk I presented at Droidcon Montreal about the work we're doing at Electric Objects around gif performance.

http://www.droidcon.ca/speakers/49

Transcript

1. Artfully Embedded Android Engineering Art
3. The EO1
4. The EO1
5. The EO1 • 1 GHz Dual ARM Freescale iMX6D • 2D & 3D graphics accelerator • 1 GB RAM • 2GB Flash Memory • 802.11 b/g/n WiFi + Bluetooth
6. The EO1 • Android KitKat 4.4 (OS19) • Setup configured with Bluetooth • Artwork is loaded via WiFi • No touch screen
7. Artwork
8. Artwork • Static Image (.png, .jpg) -> ImageView • Webpage (.html) -> Chromium WebView* • Gifs (.gif)
9. Gifs
16. Gif Players
17. Media Player
18. Chromium
19. Glide
20. android-gif-drawable GifDrawable gifDrawable; mGifBuilder.from(artwork.data()); gifDrawable = mGifBuilder.build(); mAnimatedGifView.setImageDrawable(gifDrawable);
24. Android Graphics Pipeline
26. Drawing Pipeline
27. TextureView Pipeline
28. android-gif-drawable TextureView edition
29. 720p, GifDrawable 720p, GifTextureView
30. What’s Next • Video support • Native OpenGL shaders • Unity apps / generative art
31. We’re Hiring • Artwork Engineer • Device API Engineer