diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/build.gradle b/examples/android/android-simple/app/build.gradle
index 8529509b2..877e1046e 100644
--- a/examples/android/android-simple/app/build.gradle
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/build.gradle
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@ apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
 
-//Properties properties = new Properties()
-//properties.load(project.rootProject.file('local.properties').newDataInputStream())
-//def ndkDir = properties.getProperty('ndk.dir')
-//def valLayerBinDir = "${ndkDir}/sources/third_party/vulkan/src/build-android/jniLibs"
-
 android {
     compileSdkVersion 29
     ndkVersion '21.2.6472646'
@@ -46,15 +41,6 @@ android {
         }
     }
 
-//    sourceSets {
-//        main {
-//            jniLibs {
-//                // Must have ndk-r12 or better which including layer binaries
-//                srcDirs = ["${valLayerBinDir}"]
-//            }
-//        }
-//    }
-
     flavorDimensions 'cpuArch'
     productFlavors {
         arm8 {
@@ -81,5 +67,4 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'
     implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
     implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
-//    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
 }
diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index ea3001a09..4965abb44 100755
--- a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -1,24 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!-- BEGIN_INCLUDE(manifest) -->
 <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
-        package="com.ethicalml.komputejni">
+        package="com.ethicalml.kompute">
 
-<!--    <application android:label="@string/app_name"-->
-<!--      android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">-->
-<!--        &lt;!&ndash; Our activity is the built-in NativeActivity framework class.-->
-<!--             This will take care of integrating with our NDK code. &ndash;&gt;-->
-<!--        <activity android:name="android.app.NativeActivity"-->
-<!--                android:label="@string/app_name"-->
-<!--                android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden">-->
-<!--            &lt;!&ndash; Tell NativeActivity the name of or .so &ndash;&gt;-->
-<!--            <meta-data android:name="android.app.lib_name"-->
-<!--                    android:value="kompute_android" />-->
-<!--            <intent-filter>-->
-<!--                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />-->
-<!--                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />-->
-<!--            </intent-filter>-->
-<!--        </activity>-->
-<!--        </application>-->
         <application
             android:allowBackup="true"
             android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/assets/kompute.jpg b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/assets/kompute.jpg
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e34ac98b0
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diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/assets/komputer-2.gif b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/assets/komputer-2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b060632ab
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diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index 3ba634942..e3470cacc 100644
--- a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,18 +2,10 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.4.1)
 
 add_subdirectory(../../../../../../../ ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/kompute_build)
 
-set(ANDROID_APP_GLUE_DIR ${ANDROID_NDK}/sources/android/native_app_glue)
-set(VK_ANDROID_COMMON_DIR ${ANDROID_NDK}/sources/third_party/vulkan/src/common)
 set(VK_ANDROID_INCLUDE_DIR ${ANDROID_NDK}/sources/third_party/vulkan/src/include)
 
-## build native_app_glue as a static lib
-#include_directories(${ANDROID_APP_GLUE_DIR})
-#add_library(app-glue STATIC
-#        ${ANDROID_APP_GLUE_DIR}/android_native_app_glue.c)
-
-# build vulkan app
 add_library(kompute-jni SHARED
-        kompute-jni.cpp)
+        KomputeJniNative.cpp)
 
 include_directories(
         ${VK_ANDROID_COMMON_DIR}
@@ -24,12 +16,8 @@ include_directories(
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++14      \
                      -DVK_USE_PLATFORM_ANDROID_KHR=1 -DKOMPUTE_DISABLE_VK_DEBUG_LAYERS=1")
 
-#set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS
-#        "${CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS} -u ANativeActivity_onCreate")
-
 target_link_libraries(kompute-jni
         kompute
-#        app-glue
         log
         kompute_vk_ndk_wrapper
         android)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/kompute-jni.cpp b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/KomputeJniNative.cpp
similarity index 60%
rename from examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/kompute-jni.cpp
rename to examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/KomputeJniNative.cpp
index d8a6e2368..b97b2f05e 100644
--- a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/kompute-jni.cpp
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/KomputeJniNative.cpp
@@ -27,12 +27,9 @@
 
 #include "kompute/Kompute.hpp"
 
-
-// Functions interacting with Android native activity
-//void android_main(struct android_app* state);
-//void terminate(void);
-//void handle_cmd(android_app* app, int32_t cmd);
-
+#ifndef KOMPUTE_VK_INIT_RETRIES
+#define KOMPUTE_VK_INIT_RETRIES 5
+#endif
 
 // Android log function wrappers
 static const char* kTAG = "KomputeJni";
@@ -44,51 +41,28 @@ static const char* kTAG = "KomputeJni";
   ((void)__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR, kTAG, __VA_ARGS__))
 
 extern "C" {
-JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL
-Java_com_ethicalml_komputejni_KomputeJni_stringFromJNI(JNIEnv *env, jobject thiz) {
-#if defined(__arm__)
-#if defined(__ARM_ARCH_7A__)
-#if defined(__ARM_NEON__)
-#if defined(__ARM_PCS_VFP)
-#define ABI "armeabi-v7a/NEON (hard-float)"
-#else
-#define ABI "armeabi-v7a/NEON"
-#endif
-#else
-#if defined(__ARM_PCS_VFP)
-#define ABI "armeabi-v7a (hard-float)"
-#else
-#define ABI "armeabi-v7a"
-#endif
-#endif
-#else
-#define ABI "armeabi"
-#endif
-#elif defined(__i386__)
-#define ABI "x86"
-#elif defined(__x86_64__)
-#define ABI "x86_64"
-#elif defined(__mips64)  /* mips64el-* toolchain defines __mips__ too */
-#define ABI "mips64"
-#elif defined(__mips__)
-#define ABI "mips"
-#elif defined(__aarch64__)
-#define ABI "arm64-v8a"
-#else
-#define ABI "unknown"
-#endif
 
+JNIEXPORT jboolean JNICALL
+Java_com_ethicalml_kompute_KomputeJni_initVulkan(JNIEnv *env, jobject thiz) {
 
     LOGI("Initialising vulkan");
-    // TODO: This optionally to be initialized from Kompute
-    if(!InitVulkan()) {
-        sleep(1);
-        if (!InitVulkan()) {
-            LOGE("Vulkan is unavailable, install vulkan and re-start");
-            return (*env).NewStringUTF("ERROR");
+
+    uint32_t totalRetries = 0;
+
+    while (totalRetries < KOMPUTE_VK_INIT_RETRIES) {
+        if(InitVulkan()) {
+            break;
         }
+        totalRetries++;
     }
 
+    return totalRetries < KOMPUTE_VK_INIT_RETRIES;
+}
+
+
+JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL
+Java_com_ethicalml_kompute_KomputeJni_stringFromJNI(JNIEnv *env, jobject thiz) {
+
     LOGI("Creating manager");
 
     kp::Manager mgr;
@@ -110,6 +84,6 @@ Java_com_ethicalml_komputejni_KomputeJni_stringFromJNI(JNIEnv *env, jobject thiz
         LOGI("%f ", i);
     }
 
-    return (*env).NewStringUTF("SUCCESS");
+    return env->NewStringUTF("Result is: ");
 }
 }
diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/java/com/ethicalml/kompute/KomputeJni.kt b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/java/com/ethicalml/kompute/KomputeJni.kt
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e306cf5b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/java/com/ethicalml/kompute/KomputeJni.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.ethicalml.kompute
+
+import android.os.Bundle
+import android.util.Log
+import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
+import com.ethicalml.kompute.databinding.ActivityKomputeJniBinding
+
+class KomputeJni : AppCompatActivity() {
+
+    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
+        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
+
+        val binding = ActivityKomputeJniBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
+        setContentView(binding.root)
+
+        binding.komputeGifView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/komputer-2.gif")
+
+        binding.komputeGifView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true)
+        binding.komputeGifView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true)
+
+        val successVulkanInit = initVulkan()
+        Log.i("KomputeJni", "Vulkan Result: " + successVulkanInit)
+
+        binding.komputeJniTextview.text = stringFromJNI()
+    }
+
+    external fun initVulkan(): Boolean
+
+    external fun stringFromJNI(): String
+
+    companion object {
+        init {
+            System.loadLibrary("kompute-jni")
+        }
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/java/com/ethicalml/komputejni/KomputeJni.kt b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/java/com/ethicalml/komputejni/KomputeJni.kt
deleted file mode 100755
index 8c7c9996e..000000000
--- a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/java/com/ethicalml/komputejni/KomputeJni.kt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package com.ethicalml.komputejni
-
-import android.os.Bundle
-import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
-import com.ethicalml.komputejni.databinding.ActivityKomputeJniBinding
-
-class KomputeJni : AppCompatActivity() {
-
-    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
-        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
-        /*
-         * Retrieve our TextView and set its content.
-         * the text is retrieved by calling a native
-         * function.
-         */
-        val binding = ActivityKomputeJniBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
-        setContentView(binding.root)
-        binding.komputeJniTextview.text = stringFromJNI()
-    }
-
-    /*
-     * A native method that is implemented by the
-     * 'hello-jni' native library, which is packaged
-     * with this application.
-     */
-    external fun stringFromJNI(): String?
-
-    /*
-     * This is another native method declaration that is *not*
-     * implemented by 'hello-jni'. This is simply to show that
-     * you can declare as many native methods in your Java code
-     * as you want, their implementation is searched in the
-     * currently loaded native libraries only the first time
-     * you call them.
-     *
-     * Trying to call this function will result in a
-     * java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError exception !
-     */
-    external fun unimplementedStringFromJNI(): String?
-
-    companion object {
-        /*
-         * this is used to load the 'hello-jni' library on application
-         * startup. The library has already been unpacked into
-         * /data/data/com.example.hellojni/lib/libhello-jni.so
-         * at the installation time by the package manager.
-         */
-        init {
-            System.loadLibrary("kompute-jni")
-        }
-    }
-}
-
diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_kompute_jni.xml b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_kompute_jni.xml
index 8196c4b61..26294546e 100644
--- a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_kompute_jni.xml
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_kompute_jni.xml
@@ -1,20 +1,107 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
+    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
     android:id="@+id/activity_kompute_jni"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent"
-    tools:context="com.example.hellojni.HelloJni">
+    tools:context="com.ethicalml.kompute.KomputeJni">
 
-    <TextView
-        android:id="@+id/kompute_jni_textview"
-        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
-        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
-        android:text="Hello World!"
-        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/activity_kompute_jni"
-        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/activity_kompute_jni"
-        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/activity_kompute_jni"
-        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/activity_kompute_jni" />
+    <LinearLayout
+        android:layout_width="409dp"
+        android:layout_height="354dp"
+        android:orientation="vertical"
+        tools:layout_editor_absoluteX="1dp"
+        tools:layout_editor_absoluteY="376dp">
+
+        <Space
+            android:layout_width="match_parent"
+            android:layout_height="20dp" />
+
+        <LinearLayout
+            android:layout_width="409dp"
+            android:layout_height="50dp"
+            android:orientation="horizontal">
+
+            <ImageView
+                android:id="@+id/imageView"
+                android:layout_width="10dp"
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_weight="1"
+                android:adjustViewBounds="true"
+                android:cropToPadding="true"
+                android:src="@mipmap/kompute_icon_foreground" />
+
+            <TextView
+                android:id="@+id/textView"
+                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_weight="1"
+                android:text="Kompute Android"
+                android:textSize="24sp"
+                android:textStyle="bold" />
+        </LinearLayout>
+
+        <Space
+            android:layout_width="match_parent"
+            android:layout_height="20dp" />
+
+        <LinearLayout
+            android:layout_width="match_parent"
+            android:layout_height="50dp"
+            android:orientation="horizontal">
+
+            <TextView
+                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_weight="1"
+                android:text="Input Xi"
+                android:textSize="24sp" />
+
+            <EditText
+                android:id="@+id/editTextTextPersonName"
+                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_weight="1"
+                android:ems="10"
+                android:inputType="textPersonName"
+                android:text="Name" />
+        </LinearLayout>
+
+        <Space
+            android:layout_width="match_parent"
+            android:layout_height="20dp" />
+
+        <LinearLayout
+            android:layout_width="match_parent"
+            android:layout_height="50dp"
+            android:orientation="horizontal">
+
+            <TextView
+                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_weight="1"
+                android:text="Result:"
+                android:textSize="24sp" />
+
+            <TextView
+                android:id="@+id/kompute_jni_textview"
+                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+                android:text="Input Xi"
+                android:textSize="24sp" />
+        </LinearLayout>
+
+        <Space
+            android:layout_width="match_parent"
+            android:layout_height="20dp" />
+
+        <WebView
+            android:id="@+id/kompute_gif_view"
+            android:layout_width="409dp"
+            android:layout_height="230dp" />
+
+    </LinearLayout>
 
 </androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/mipmap-anydpi-v26/kompute_icon.xml b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/mipmap-anydpi-v26/kompute_icon.xml
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..54207096d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/mipmap-anydpi-v26/kompute_icon.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<adaptive-icon xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
+    <background android:drawable="@color/kompute_icon_background"/>
+    <foreground android:drawable="@mipmap/kompute_icon_foreground"/>
+</adaptive-icon>
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diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/mipmap-xhdpi/kompute_icon.png b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/mipmap-xhdpi/kompute_icon.png
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..49e2477e9
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diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/mipmap-xhdpi/kompute_icon_foreground.png b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/mipmap-xhdpi/kompute_icon_foreground.png
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..02cb5eecf
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diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/values/kompute_icon_background.xml b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/values/kompute_icon_background.xml
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..01f925c3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/res/values/kompute_icon_background.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<resources>
+    <color name="kompute_icon_background">#FFFFFF</color>
+</resources>
\ No newline at end of file