Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 7 2013 (LTE)

[Michael Butash]

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...