Sting Cheng
ICL/ITRI
Technical Manager
With more than 15 years experience on Java programming language and proven capabilities as an architect/software developer on Java/J2ME, Web Services on Linux/Unix and Android platforms. I joined hTC as technical manager in 2008.08, managing Android 3AM (3rd Parties Solutions/Applications Management) Team, that coordinates solution vendors & internal RD.
I joined Android embedded hypervisor team in ICL/ITRI, Taiwan since 2012, I am leading the “Cloud Execution Platform for Android Containers” project, the goal of this project is to build, by using Android container, a cost effective cloud execution platform for Android App streaming services, the platform includes a virtual smartphone pool with each virtual smartphone running as an Android container deployed in the cloud data center consisting of X86 servers and ARM mobile SOC clusters. Users will be able to remotely control the virtual smartphone through the network and consume any services on demand without having to download or install any Apps.
Android containerization is one of the core technologies of this project, Its source code has been release as “Android Containerization” open source project on github, the team joined COSCUP, 2017 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters), which is an annual conference held by Taiwanese Open source community participants since 2006, and shared our experience and technology approaches on how we realize containerized Android.