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I'd love it if I could have both handset and server Android devices and they could talk to each other. Imagine running the server-side part of apps (e.g. always

• LeoPanthera 8y ago
  Why does it matter what the backend OS is? Why does it need to be Android?
  • derefr 8y ago
    I think the idea here is that you would compile one native Android application that is running a single “distributed process” capable of spawning threads in both places, as if the phone and the cloud were two (very distant) NUMA noses of the same physical device. (Or, more practically, with the Android runtime doing transparent distributed RPC using a single set of static types that are marshalled between the client and server using something like protobufs.) For this to work out, the devices really need to be either capable of running the same native code; or at least need to all be running an abstract bytecode VM with its durable state synchronized between them.