ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

["leon lee" <llrraa@xxxxxx>]

Maybe not the entire Android SDK, just some modules, such as view system, window manager, activity manager. And I agree with you, right now, we need to have a smooth and reliable touch first. This is the base of everything.




------------------ Original ------------------
From:  "Nathan Haines"<nhaines@xxxxxxxxxx>;
Date:  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 04:46 PM
To:  "ubuntu-phone"<ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 

Subject:  Re: [Ubuntu-phone] how do you feel about touch



On 06/21/2013 01:22 AM, leon lee wrote:
> We can have Android app support in a different way on touch. We change
> the framework of android to native, hopely this would make performance
> even better than the real android.

This pretty much just tells me you don't know anything about how Android 
apps work.

Android apps are written for the Dalvik virtual machine.  There is 
no--and cannot be any--"native" framework.  And as was laid out expertly 
on this list (unfortunately I couldn't find the email), the only way to 
make this happen would be to completely reimplement the entire Android 
SDK and try to map it to the Ubuntu Touch SDK.  And then there are 
certain feature that Ubuntu may not want.  And then we not only have to 
maintain these APIs for compatibility purposes, but also track and 
implement any updates to the Android SDK.

While running Android apps with some sort of compatibility layer 
certainly isn't impossible, it's understandably not a goal of the drive 
to create Ubuntu Touch currently underway.

Regards,
Nathan

-- 
Nathan Haines
Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/

-- 
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone
Post to     : ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone
More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp