1# Native Bridge 2 3A native bridge enables apps with native components to run on systems with 4different ISA or ABI. 5 6For example, an application which has only native ARM binaries may run on an x86 7system if there’s a native bridge installed which can translate ARM to x86. This 8is useful to bootstrap devices with an architecture that is not supported by the 9majority of native apps in the app store (it closes the gap between the number 10of apps that can be run on that particular architecture). 11 12Starting from L, AOSP supports native bridges (note that it *does not* provide 13an actual native bridge). 14 15The `libnativebridge` library handles loading of native libraries with a foreign 16ISA (aka *translated* libraries in the *guest* environment) into a managed JVM 17process using the native ISA in the *host* environment. Note that loading 18translated libraries and their dependencies in the guest environment is done by 19a separate linker, which typically uses a different linker config than the host 20one. 21 22 23 24See also [design doc](http://go/native-bridge) (internal only). 25
