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What if "the next version of Android" will run all those old .APKs on something that isn't Linux? To someone working on the OS level of present day Android this
by usrusr 8y ago
What if "the next version of Android" will run all those old .APKs on something that isn't Linux? To someone working on the OS level of present day Android this will be "not Android anymore", to everybody else it will be just another iteration, perhaps worth a little brand refresh. There's no conflict beyond semantics.
- m0zg 8y agoDon't see how that will work, given that a lot of the more desirable apps use native API and their developers have no desire whatsoever to put in more work to adopt yet another Google OS, in addition to Anrdoid. See e.g. what happened to Windows Mobile. Excellent OS (better than Anrdoid in terms of UX IMO), but failed to get traction with devs. It's not like all Android phones will just cease to exist when Fuchsia comes out. So even if this is done near flawlessly (chances of which are slim given how different Fuchsia promises to be), Google would be expanding the already insane Android testing matrix for devs.