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Got it. It's a shame that Google has been moving Android in a more proprietary direction. Are there any notable Android forks that are more progressive about s

• pas 9y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_firmwar... Replicant is the most "open". Also, it's not hard to package all the stuff a language needs and put it into an APK. It's just messy and there are a lot of "edge cases" and things to work out (like the problem of interacting with the Platform, you'd need to call into a "Java" interface from your language, you'd need to run your app inside ART/Dalvik, maybe fork - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39006044/repeatedly-fork-android-app-process-where-child-can-access-system-services-via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39006044/repeatedly-fork... ). And so if you spend half a year just getting something to run, and on the next Android version Google makes a change, and bamm, you might get left in the cold, because security or whatever.