As Tizen can run Android apps and run Wayland I guess that's a great startingpoint if anyone want to giva a shot at supporting Android apps on Ubuntu Touch.
2014-08-14 19:26 GMT+02:00 Oliver Grawert <[email protected]>: > hi, > Am Donnerstag, den 14.08.2014, 18:10 +0100 schrieb Hunt, Greg: > > Hi, > > I'm interested learning what the current state and plans for Android > > on Ubuntu Touch are, and trying to find out what's possible with > > containers. > > > > As far as I can tell it's currently not possible to run Android apk > > files, and the we are just using Android to access binary drivers for > > the device. > > > > The thing that is confusing me is originally we were using > > surface-flinger, before moving to mir. Did we actually make use of any > > graphical android apps (native or otherwise)? > > all we use from android is a 100-150MB big minimal build that is just > enough to manage the hardware ... (i.e. the modem drivers and daemons to > manage them, sensor drivers and the service to manage them, the same for > graphics drivers ... etc etc) so essentially only the most minimal > driver bits ... the rest of the android build is ripped out, so there is > no dalvik, or any of the higher layer bits, our android is solely a > black box in an lxc container that we talk to to initialize the hardware > drivers, nothing more. > > if you wanted to support an android .apk you would actually have to ship > a dalvik (or equivalent) VM inside your click package, you would also > have to make sure this VM can render on Mir (no idea if that works or > not, might work out of the box or might not work at all, i doubt anyone > ever tried that). > > ciao > oli > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Rasmus Eneman
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