Linux & Android

[Ramzus]

I spotted this a couple of days ago:
Native android runtime will enable android apps on windows

Is there a Native Android runtime which can enable Android apps on Linux?

[orjanv]

Reading the article, it said:

As some readers might remember, Canonical briefly explored some similar concepts in 2009 but was never able to offer production-quality support for Android software on Ubuntu. The Android userspace stack is somewhat insular and not particularly conducive to application portability. BlueStacks managed to overcome the obstacles with its own solution.

Searching Ubuntu forums, this was said by a moderator (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23492/):

It's not a question of 'allowing' Android apps to install to Ubuntu. It's not forbidden. This idea was closed because the original author did not suggest any useful or reasonable way to make it happen. And nobody else has either.

The original author rejected the idea of virtualization, though it would meet the Rationale (and that's how the SDK does it). Nobody has suggested, for example, a team of volunteers to recompile Android apps from source into Ubuntu packages. Nobody has suggested an 'Android-friendly' metapackage of tools and libs to make native installation possible. Nobody has suggested UI guidelines so packages are more easily portable between the two environments. Nobody has suggested lots of other implied tasks.

So I just don't see much interest in this idea.

I guess it should be possible, but someone need to do it.


From an article on OMGubuntu, "Myriad Alien Dalvik" is such a piece of software. But not released yet.
Android apps to run on non-android devices with ‘Alien Dalvik’

‘Myriad Alien Dalvik’ will be made available commercially later this year on the MeeGo platform, with support for further platforms due to be announced accordingly.

[Ramzus]

Thanks for the info

[nazklenknani]

Since android emulator is available on both linux and windows platform, in my opinion it is possible for this to happen