You're free to build this compatibility layer yourself, that's the wonderful thing about open source. But as we've stated over and over again, it is a bad idea and it will not be supported here.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:08 AM, leon lee <[email protected]> wrote: > The API would not be changed, what we need to change is the things behind > API. > > > ------------------ Original ------------------ > *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. >> >> >> ------------------ 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 >> >> -- Sincerely, Josh
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