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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

You cannot cherry pick from the Android APIs. You have to support all of
them or none of them. *some* API support is usually worse than none for end
users.

Sincerely,
Josh
On Jun 21, 2013 6:17 AM, "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.
>
>
> ------------------ 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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