After reading ITSFOSS Article because someone was looking for a way to run Android on Linux outside of VMs, etc. I am intrigued by the possibilities, specifically in the new version released.
My question first is: can you really have some Android apps run on Linux outside of a VM or other container? How does that work in this OS? Switch to Android to use those apps?
Thinking of my portable Linux tablet, (not sure if tablets are supported on this) it would make having some apps I use that are Android-only (i.e., my home security cams app) available on the tablet (this is not available in a browser).
Considering I have no idea how it works, looking for input on the pros & cons as well as testing it, maybe on a separate drive?
Hi Shiela,
There are some āAndroidā apps that run in Solus.
I am not sure whether they have been ported, of whether they
use some sort of container/emulator.
Cheers
Neville
Interesting @nevj . I could try running Solus and see which apps would run. One might be ported as it has a desktop app for Windows as well (and I have run it via Crossover in Linux). But the other I cannot get to run even in an emulator in W11.
Now that would be a helpful app. Iāll check the Solus Software Center, but I figured if you can run Android (like mentioned in the BlendOS) you can surely use FDroid and other app stores to see if they are there as well.
There is an opensource āforkā of ChromeOS - and itās a lot easier to get to the Linux underneath than it is on Google āsanctionedā Chromebooks - and - I believe you can now run Android apps ānativelyā on ChromeOS on Chrome books (but I donāt know if thatās possible on the free OSS fork)ā¦
I actually tried it on a spare laptop - i.e. the OSS fork of ChromeOSā¦ Canāt remember the name though and didnāt spend very long on itā¦
I think what I tried / used was NeverWhere Cloudready perhaps ? :
You can do ChromeOS Flex and it even has a live boot thingie to try it outā¦
I like the live session. I assumed all Linux distros had themā¦I was wrong.
Iāll see if I can research running android apps natively on it. Wonder if that might be a good use for the Surface I replaced. If not, I certainly have a very old laptop I could test it on.
Just saw this come up today from a story on GamingOnLinux.com : https://waydro.id/ (I think it needs Wayland - and I canāt run Wayland thanks to Synergy KVM)
I āinheritedā a Lenovo IdeaPad Chromebook - sadly my baby sister passed away just over 2 weeks ago now - just got back from Melbourne for her funeral - way too young (2 days before her 51st birthday - making her my 2nd sibling to die at the age of 50). There were 7 of us - now weāre down to 4 (my mum is still going - sheās outlived her two youngest sisters, her husband and two of her children - terrible).
Anyway - I managed to get her login - we urgently needed her contacts to get hold of her best friend from 3 year old kindy to the present day - but I found an on 40th birthday invitation from 2013 with her friendās number on it - we couldnāt unlock her phone or her Chromebook. That was one of the worst phone calls Iāve ever had in my life - not a big fan of police, but, that must be the WORST job in the world when you have to knock on someoneās door and give them some truly awful news.
Iām back in Perth (arrived home around 1 am Friday morning)ā¦ Now Iām logged into her IdeaPad - and had a look around (not too nosy) - have now created my own login and installing the Linux / Crouton environment (Debian Bookworm for aarch64) - getting SSHD working isnāt straightforward, but I reckon Iāll get thereā¦ Theyāre weird - they use some kinda sandbox / NAT - i.e. the IP address reported in āip -4 aā isnāt the WiFi acquired IP addressā¦ I think itās essentially a āvirtual machineā of some kind?
I will probably use it - itās got a keyboard and touchpadā¦ Might buy a stylus for it tooā¦ Android apps seem to run fineā¦
OK - itās not Crouton, itās Crostini and itās a containerā¦
Managed to get sshd listening and receiving users :
I have this interesting passage about John Donne which says it allā¦
" In a sermon entitled, āFor Whom the Bell Tolls,ā poet-priest John Donne asserts that we are all connected to one another because we all live together in community. He summed up his point of view in the immortal phrase, āNo man is an island.ā He drives the point home by saying that the church bell rings upon the death of a member of the community, prompting folks to ask, āWho died?ā Instead, Donne notes, the death of anyone is a loss to us all. We are all part of the community, and a little of each of us also is lost.
Hereās how he famously put it:
Any manās death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind;
And therefore never send to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."
I think you should use the Chromebookā¦ and treasure it
Itās hard being so far away - I hadnāt seen her for 7 yearsā¦ In 1982 my parents moved with her and two other siblings, from Perth to Melbourne (me and my next brother stayed in Perth) when she was only 8 - so I missed whole chunks of seeing her grow upā¦ But did see her every 2-3 years from about 1989 until 2017 - both my daughters loved her dearlyā¦ My eldest daughter watched the livestream of her memorial service from her job, but had to be excused and come home from work as she was too distraughtā¦
Anyway I will make use of her Chromebook (not that I needed any more devices!) and treasure itā¦
Been playing a lot of the music she loved - our tastes werenāt too far apart (but she never really got into heavy metal) - mostly New Order just lately, and some Sinead OāConnor and Kate Bush, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cureā¦ and Bowieā¦
