What is Neon with respect to Android?

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soclose picture soclose · Aug 11, 2011 · Viewed 29.8k times · Source

I'm a beginner in Android. My friend heard "Neon". So I did Google and found this

Referring it, Neon is related to multimedia for Android OS or all mobile OS, is it? Please share me more.

Answer

Shash316 picture Shash316 · Aug 11, 2011

Neon is an ARM co-processor, meant for vector processing. Neon is used for multimedia data processing. It is an optional co-processor, the Android Linux kernel may or may not have support for this. (Eclair days)

However if Google provides any Android Application APIs to access Neon, then you can safely use it in your application.

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