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They couldn't without some Rosetta-like layer. It'd lock their phones out of too many apps.
by jdiff 3y ago
They couldn't without some Rosetta-like layer. It'd lock their phones out of too many apps.
- sangnoir 3y ago> They couldn't without some Rosetta-like layer You mean something like the Android runtime (ART) that comes bundled with Android? Moat apps don't make use of native code, and Google has been making the use if native code more difficult with each subsequent Android release.
- jdiff 3y agoYes, I was specifically referring to apps that use native code. I wasn't aware though that Google has been interfering with that.
- mrpippy 3y agoChrome OS already has an ARM emulator so that Android apps with ARM-only native libraries can run on x86 CrOS systems. If Google really wants to support RISC-V that badly, they could probably just retarget that.
- my123 3y agoThe emulator to do so is written and maintained by Intel, not Google.