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==Introduction==

As known, Android is conceived to address mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Nevertheless, it is gaining popularity in the industrial applications as well. The main reason is the availability of a well-known cross-platform software interface/environment for the development and the execution of application layer programs (the apps). Even though there is no doubt about the fact that this is an appealing feature, it is worth remembering that Android is not designed to be portable to embedded devices which are not compliant with the [https://source.android.com/compatibility/cdd Android Compatibility Definition Document]. Generally speaking, the embedded platforms used to build devices for the industrial/telecom/biomedical markets do not comply with these requirements because the presence of interfaces which are not used in the mobile devices.