The API would not be changed, what we need to change is the things behind API.
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From: "Josh Leverette"<[email protected]>;
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 08:17 PM
To: "leon lee"<[email protected]>;
Cc: "ubuntu-phone"<[email protected]>; "Nathan
Haines"<[email protected]>;
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] how do you feel about touch
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.
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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
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