• @sabreW4K3OP
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    723 days ago

    I haven’t looked into it. But I suspect that if Linux phones can get Kotlin to run natively, we’ll start seeing some of the apps from F-Droid ported over and that will be the turning point.

    • PureTryOut
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      923 days ago

      Kotlin isn’t the problem, missing the various Android API’s is.

      • @sabreW4K3OP
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        323 days ago

        But a Linux distro can go like for like, like what Google did with Java right? So people wouldn’t have to recreate apps, just tweak them

          • @sabreW4K3OP
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            222 days ago

            I feel like, if AOSP was going to be adopted by the Linux community, it would’ve happened already.

            • @[email protected]
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              122 days ago

              I’m not sure what “the Linux community” really means but I would bet that pure open source Android based on AOSP are more popular than the non-Android Linux mobile OS combined.

              • @sabreW4K3OP
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                122 days ago

                Think PinePhone and Librem Phone,

    • @[email protected]
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      723 days ago

      Kotlin targets the JVM right? I think you’d need either a port of the runtime (dalvik?) Or an api translation later a la WINE.

      But I don’t actually know anything, so don’t listen to me. Having a fully Foss phone with support for the android app ecosystem would be wonderful though