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This is really interesting stuff, found it on Hacker News. It's like WINE, but for Android <-> Linux: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/

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[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's still really basic, but has loads of potential, Unforunately it has a hard requirement on GTK, otherwise there are a few things that would have been nice for greater AX86 in general, for instance they have mediacodec->vaapi support, something ax86 has... struggled with in the past. but we can't use it since we can't use gtk.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Touch can't use GTK? Why not?

[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

what does Ubuntu touch have to do with this? I explicitly refered to the greater ax86 ecosystem.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You were responding to a comment talking about Ubuntu Touch. You then talking about "we" without any explaining of who you meant made me assume you meant Ubuntu Touch users.

[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

ah my bad, I had thought I made it clear, I mean the greater android x86, Blisslabs projects like Bliss OS and waydroid, other projects like WSL2, tho that is dead... some chromeOS stuff too.