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Finally managed to blog about a project I did earlier this year! If you want to see how perfectly integrated Android App support on mobile Linux can look, check this out: blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023

20 Dec 2023 at 11:10 | Open on mastodon.social
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Bacteria
chfkch :nixos: :rust:

@verdre
I think some people would even sponsor them enough to open source it? I don't need Sailfish OS but i would pay for that i guess.

20 Dec 2023 at 12:41 | Open on ruhr.social
Cleo Menezes Jr. :verified:
Lars Buddenberg

@verdre This looks way better than I expected!

20 Dec 2023 at 12:58 | Open on troet.cafe
Jonas

@koyax and this demo video is actually quite old :)

In the mean time I've also managed to enable the back-gesture in Android and hide the back button (thanks to @larma for the help there), audio routing to earpiece works, proximity sensor works and much more. The only thing that's really hard/impossible so far is making android aware of the cellular network.

I actually wrote an incomplete list of known issues, just added that to the repo: github.com/jonas2515/alien-eve

@koyax and this demo video is actually quite old :)

In the mean time I've also managed to enable the back-gesture in Android and hide the back button (thanks to @larma for the help there), audio routing to earpiece works, proximity sensor works and much more. The only thing that's really hard/impossible so far is making android aware of the cellular network.

20 Dec 2023 at 13:10 | Open on mastodon.social
Clari

@verdre me: oh that looks awesome, what OS?

SailfishOS

*cries in American*

20 Dec 2023 at 13:00 | Open on mastodon.social
caleb
David :gnome: :silverblue:

@verdre Yeah if #Jolla wanted to do a IndieGoGo / Kickstarter / etc with if we raise X $ we'll bring this OpenSource... I for one will happily throw money at them. 😁️

Great work, that's very impressive!

20 Dec 2023 at 13:13 | Open on fosstodon.org
Ihsiak

@verdre with open source you mean just a part that is above propertieaty (3rd party company) core?

20 Dec 2023 at 13:17 | Open on 101010.pl
Will Thompson
Nyoelle

@verdre Amazing work. Even if it is closed-source, it is still, more options, more opportunities. Therefore, cute and nya

20 Dec 2023 at 13:48 | Open on mstdn.starnix.network
Will Thompson

@verdre I had heard rumours of this project – really cool! Amazing work.

20 Dec 2023 at 13:49 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
user8e8f87e
DeepBlue V7.X

@verdre@mastodon.social Btw, if you want to talk to Jolla about it, you can propose it as a topic for the next IRC meeting: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/community-meeting-on-irc-21st-december-2023/17546

It is probably too late to get a proper answer from them for the next meeting, but they usually happen every 2 weeks. There is a lot that Jolla can't answer publicly though, so don't get your hopes up (they got burned promising stuff in the past), but bringing it up won't hurt. You can even hang out in the meeting tomorrow and just show it off in the general discussion at the end of the meeting, but you won't get an official answer there, just some Jolla people getting excited about it probably. It might also be a nice topic for the next Sailfish Community News. :)

@verdre@mastodon.social Btw, if you want to talk to Jolla about it, you can propose it as a topic for the next IRC meeting: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/community-meeting-on-irc-21st-december-2023/17546

It is probably too late to get a proper answer from them for the next meeting, but they usually happen every 2 weeks. There is a lot that Jolla can't answer publicly though, so don't get your hopes up (they got burned promising stuff in the past), but bringing it up won't hurt. You can even hang...

20 Dec 2023 at 13:58 | Open on nheko.io
Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו
Jan <3

@verdre wow this is incredible. Phone Shell looks so good and pleasing!

20 Dec 2023 at 14:17 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jon Ramos

@verdre This looks really cool but the screen tearing is hurting my eyeballs. Definitely looks a lot more refined than the other Linux phone options.

20 Dec 2023 at 15:23 | Open on infosec.exchange
Hund

@verdre I'm looking forward to when Linux is actually usable on mobile phones. :)

20 Dec 2023 at 16:05 | Open on gts.linuxkompis.se
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@verdre no shit this is AMAZING 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

20 Dec 2023 at 16:18 | Open on wetdry.world
fops (plushie arc) (Chaotic Stupid)

@verdre god i want mobile linux to become viable because oh my god libadwaita on a phone looks SO GOOD

20 Dec 2023 at 16:27 | Open on wetdry.world
Jon :fedora: :linux:

@verdre That is remarkable. Keep up the great work.

20 Dec 2023 at 17:02 | Open on fosstodon.org
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@verdre Waw! that's amaizing... I've got a sailfish os, but a community one, I will be super happy to pay again (I already had an xa2 that was 32 bit, currently I've got 64 bit phone) to get aliendalvick again. Amaizing!

20 Dec 2023 at 17:18 | Open on mastodon.cat
Jonas

@eickot fwiw, I was actually a bit surprised that nobody in the community tried this before..

Getting Aliendalvik to run on other Sailfish OS devices should be quite easy compared to different Linux distros, no need for any shimming of Qt APIs, it’s all there already.

A few things that depend on forwarding of Android HALs into the container might not work depending on the device (i think camera, hw video decoding), but the rest should work perfectly fine.

20 Dec 2023 at 18:51 | Open on mastodon.social
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@verdre yes, I only need the 64bit binaries, and I expect should work... but... I don't have them. And if it's using lxc, maybe something else, which I don't have the knowledge. I'm already having problems with networking and waydroid, and I don't know how to resolve it. Thanks!

20 Dec 2023 at 19:09 | Open on mastodon.cat
mat

@verdre reminds me of my old Jolla phones. Would love to see this live soon on my future Shift phone :heart_fire:
Which base Linux is running on your phone?

20 Dec 2023 at 18:56 | Open on activitypub.mnethome.de
DNA schedule

@verdre great post! This gives me hope of escaping the Android surveillance panopticon~

20 Dec 2023 at 19:19 | Open on mastodon.social
CEO of Anti-Clock Society

@verdre Neat! Even if this doesn't result in a more practical way to use Aliendalvik outside Sailfish OS, this is a useful demonstration of what Waydroid should aim for and how to do it.

20 Dec 2023 at 20:54 | Open on floss.social
Itanium Thom
Bø!rge

@verdre Ooh, this is very exciting! But does it work with apps that demands an unrooted environment, like banking apps?

21 Dec 2023 at 0:16 | Open on tutoteket.no
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