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Why would you want android apps ?

Most of them won’t work because they rely on google play services or because of the sandbox.
They would also look out of place. And if you can run android apps, why would they be bothered to write a native app.

> On 22 Feb 2016, at 15:26, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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