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Most Android apps are just JVM bytecode and work on any architecture. Apps using the NDK (native development kit) are architecture-specific and often lack x86
by opencl 8y ago
Most Android apps are just JVM bytecode and work on any architecture. Apps using the NDK (native development kit) are architecture-specific and often lack x86 binaries but ecommerce apps are highly unlikely to use the NDK.
- mehrdadn 8y agoHuh, I feel like I used to get tons of "app X wants to load binary Y.so" notifications with XPrivacy for quite a few apps... is it really that rare?
- opencl 8y agoI wouldn't call it rare in general, but it seems pretty rare within the specific genre of ecommerce apps. Unless they use React Native, that requires the NDK. I have an x86 Android tablet and it does emulate ARM binaries but the performance is bad enough that it is pretty obvious when you are running ARM binaries. I'm not sure how hard it would be to integrate libhoudini (Intel's ARM emulator) into this, if they ever even released the code.
- GranPC 8y agoUnfortunately libhoudini is proprietary. I don't think it's being updated for newer Android versions either.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoMaybe with qemu translating then?