ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 13:20 -0800, Bob Summerwill wrote:

> 
> If you want to see something amazing, check out "Android as an App" on
> SailfishOS.   That kind of magic should be possible for Ubuntu Phone
> as well, I think.

The security model of Ubuntu, and that of Android, do not mesh at all.
Sailfish is not Ubuntu, and to compare the two in this regard of running
Android apps, is to completely ignore all of the work that has gone into
Ubuntu for security.

A general purpose solution for running Android apps would defeat the
security work that has been put into Ubuntu, and open up your Ubuntu
phone to all the same malware and other problems that Android has.


However, anyone is more than welcome to attempt to create a package
which contains one of these translation engines, and their
favorite .apk, and side-load it onto their phone, and attempt to use it.
You won't get Android push notifications. You won't get contacts or
calendar integration. You will get an Android App running on your Ubuntu
phone. If you want full system integration, then the best way for that
to happen, is to have a port of the app.

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