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Jolla achieved this. My Jolla phone can run most Android apps without problems. Maybe Microsoft's scope was too big?
by andridk 11y ago
Jolla achieved this. My Jolla phone can run most Android apps without problems.
Maybe Microsoft's scope was too big?
- chappi42 11y agoBut not (officially) Google Play apps. And the Android environment is old. (Nevertheless I wouldn't switch my Jolla to anything else...)
- Zigurd 11y agoThat is basically correct. My understanding is that Jolla phones run an Android runtime, either Dalvik VM or ART, plus the Android Framework code. Had Microsoft taken the approach of running a separate runtime for Android apps instead of trying to map frameworks, they might have something by now. They would still have to map the semantics of the behavior of an app being foreground or not, connect the clipboard, etc. So it's not like dropping-in a runtime that's meant to be portable, but it's a lot closer.