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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're free to build this compatibility layer yourself, that's the
wonderful thing about open source. But as we've stated over and over again,
it is a bad idea and it will not be supported here.


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:08 AM, leon lee <llrraa@xxxxxx> wrote:

> The API would not be changed, what we need to change is the things behind
> API.
>
>
> ------------------ Original ------------------
> *From: * "Josh Leverette"<coder543@xxxxxxxxx>;
> *Date: * Fri, Jun 21, 2013 08:17 PM
> *To: * "leon lee"<llrraa@xxxxxx>; **
> *Cc: * "ubuntu-phone"<ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Nathan Haines"<
> nhaines@xxxxxxxxxx>; **
> *Subject: * Re: [Ubuntu-phone] how do you feel about touch
>
> 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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-- 
Sincerely,
    Josh