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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:17 PM, leon lee <llrraa@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

See my answer on the other thread. Would be great if we could
consolidate the conversation into one thread.

Thanks,

  Thomas
>
> ------------------ 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
>
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