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[Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>]

Wow, this is cool news!

It's something like Wine, hopefully a lot closer integration-wise. The
(realistic) goal of the project according to the introductory video on
[1] is to have Android apps available on your desktop (depicted by
icons) and just click on the icons to launch them. No setup and
tweaking of a runtime environment (as now during development). And
Android apps available for installation from any app store. Nice!

Unfortunately (or fortuantely), the project maintainers are
overhauling the code base completely. So, the project is not
"installable" at the moment. The main repositories on GitHub have been
renamed to "*-old" [2, 3]. I've been told on IRC that "realistically
if you want to build it yourslef you're best waiting a few weeks for
me to tidy things up" (d_ed on #shashlik).

Would be awesome if that would work in an integrated fashion on Ubuntu
phone and table, rather soon. That would solve a lot of headaches, à
la "is <Viber/SnapChat/WhatsApp/you-name-it> going to be implemented
for Ubuntu Phone?". That could do away with the maybe major motivation
for Canonical to focus the catch-up game on the platform instead of
differentiation. (Sorry!)

Peter

[1] http://www.shashlik.io/news/2015/07/27/shashlik-project-launches-at-akademy-2015/
[2] https://github.com/shashlik/old-shashlik
[3] https://github.com/shashlik/old-docs


2016-02-22 4:25 GMT+01:00 Jason Daborn:
> Saw this today, maybe useful for Ubuntu Touch?
>
> http://www.shashlik.io/
>
> Jason