They wouldn't need to emulate the android run-time as much as include it.
as the android run-time is an engine on top of a Linux kernel. that would
give them a huge application repository.

I am not a fan of a number of the web-apps they have. but the native ones
are really nice when you can find them. And i think i rather like the
general OS navigation.

I think i will endeavor to be at the sammtich tonight and bring it along
for people to look at.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

> That's very cool, I've wondered how usability of ubuntu touch is
> progressing.  I'd love to put it on my old transformer infinity, maybe
> unity might actually be useful then.  Yes, needs apps...
>
> Re: Apps, They can do what makers of devices with less produced apps
> attempt, emulate android runtime for importing apps (ahem, windoze and
> blackberry), which has always been my vote for ubuntu touch (and linux).
> Not sure if use of dalvik to art changes things, but there never seemed to
> be any good ways short of running it in qemu or like vm for hardware level
> abstraction under linux.  And that was shoddy at best for me.
>
> There was the chrome hack for running android apps, but chrome hates amd
> video, and amd hates everyone to produce suitable linux drivers.  It never
> worked for me, thanks gpu.
>
> Anyone else know if there are better ways to run native apps under linux
> or touch these days?  Seems since the kernels aren't that different,
> emulation could be made to work enough for the runtimes natively, and
> apparently others have or are figuring it out in much more foreign waters
> (ew, windoze phone).
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 08/18/2015 10:27 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
>> Now if they could get some application development...
>>
>
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