Where is the Android on LInux Desktop layer?
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| Browser72 Mar 21, 2014 12:08 PM EDT |
I remember in Android's early years, Mark Shuttleworth demo'd the ability to run a few Android apps on Ubuntu. Why is no one working on what should be a relatively easy translation layer? What a way to sell Linux that would be! Here run all of your Andoid apps, plus a full desktop operating system. |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 21, 2014 12:51 PM EDT |
I can see it now! AINE: AINE is not an Emulator. derived from, Andriod Emulator. |
| jdixon Mar 21, 2014 1:03 PM EDT |
Well, wouldn't the primary requirement be a Dalvik runtime enviroment? I wonder if one exists. OK, some quick research reveals this article, which may be what Mark was doing: http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Android-on-Ubuntu-Linux-with-... |
| CFWhitman Mar 21, 2014 1:49 PM EDT |
I would love to see Dalvik (or the new Android virtual machine, Art) ported to Linux for x86, but a Free Software version of such a thing does not seem to be forthcoming. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as just putting the existing Dalvik for x86 on Linux because the C library and low level support software for Android is incompatible with a conventional Linux distribution. The Android virtual machine would actually have to be ported to GNU/Linux. Since all the software involved is open source there is nothing actually stopping this from happening except the fact that it is a far from trivial task. Still I would have expected more rumblings of it than I've actually heard. Right now the best you can do is either the Android Development Environment/SDK or else Android for x86 on a virtual machine. |
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