LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2018

Beyond smartphone, Android has been used as interactive devices in other scenarios such as retailer shops and connected cars. These scenarios require multiple or even many standalone Android devices to provide uncompromised Android experience for every single user. Meanwhile, computing capacity grows fast even on relatively low-cost computing platforms. To save the total cost of ownership, this presentation presents MultiDroid, a container based virtualization architecture running multiple standalone Android clients simultaneously with native hardware device performance and UI experience on a single physical device in an isolated and secure manner. A prototype of MultiDroid that runs three real clients on a single Intel platform has been implemented and performance data demonstrates that Multi-Droid imposes only minor runtime over-head.