On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Will Gillick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Does Android support on-the-fly installation of applications (with > presumably trusted certificates)? > Only if you are implementing this within the system itself. Of course this also seriously violates the security model, so really don't do this. > 2) Is there support in the SDK for cloning or forking of a process. > Not at all. Even outside of the SDK, forking or cloning of an app process is not supported. > 3) Is there support in the SDK for suspend/resume of a process, > especially resuming on another device? > Suspend/resume, no; on another device, not a chance. > 4) Does Android itself have the concept of PCBs (Process Control > Block) for maintaining the state of its processes/threads? > Android at this level is Linux. > 5) Is this Android "PCB" (or task descriptor, or process descriptor) > below the Android level, and instead at the Linux OS level? I'm not > familiar enough with low-level Android to determine this through the > typical developer sources. > It is Linux. You are facing a tremendous task. Good luck. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
