You cannot cherry pick from the Android APIs. You have to support all of them or none of them. *some* API support is usually worse than none for end users.
Sincerely, Josh On Jun 21, 2013 6:17 AM, "leon lee" <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe not the entire Android SDK, just some modules, such as view system, > window manager, activity manager. And I agree with you, right now, we need > to have a smooth and reliable touch first. This is the base of everything. > > > ------------------ Original ------------------ > *From: * "Nathan Haines"<[email protected]>; > *Date: * Fri, Jun 21, 2013 04:46 PM > *To: * "ubuntu-phone"<[email protected]>; ** > *Subject: * Re: [Ubuntu-phone] how do you feel about touch > > On 06/21/2013 01:22 AM, leon lee wrote: > > We can have Android app support in a different way on touch. We change > > the framework of android to native, hopely this would make performance > > even better than the real android. > > This pretty much just tells me you don't know anything about how Android > apps work. > > Android apps are written for the Dalvik virtual machine. There is > no--and cannot be any--"native" framework. And as was laid out expertly > on this list (unfortunately I couldn't find the email), the only way to > make this happen would be to completely reimplement the entire Android > SDK and try to map it to the Ubuntu Touch SDK. And then there are > certain feature that Ubuntu may not want. And then we not only have to > maintain these APIs for compatibility purposes, but also track and > implement any updates to the Android SDK. > > While running Android apps with some sort of compatibility layer > certainly isn't impossible, it's understandably not a goal of the drive > to create Ubuntu Touch currently underway. > > Regards, > Nathan > > -- > Nathan Haines > Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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