Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

Someone is making progress porting Dalvik (the Android runtime) to Ubuntu ... seems like this could be an opportunity for someone to leverage that work to get Dalvik on Maemo (and/or Mer).

http://mjfrey.blogspot.com/

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

Super-moderators: please move this (very interesting) thread to "Alternatives".

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

Why Alternatives?

This would run ON TOP of Maemo, not instead of it.

Putting it under Alternatives makes NO sense. Maybe in one of the software forums...

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

Moved to Alternatives... I think it works here too (not to be argumentative).

Tim

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

Yes, it would run "on top" of Maemo, but it is an alternative software runtime. My Easy Debian runs "on top" of Maemo too.

Just like my Easy Debian, some users would want to only run one or two Android/Dalvik apps from within Maemo, but many more would want to shut down the Maemo desktop entirely and use the Android desktop instead.

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

Seems like odd logic to me... do gameboy emulator discussions go in Alternatives, as well? :-}

(I'm not trying to just be argumentative, it really does strike me as an odd organizational decision, but I do accept that it has been done)

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

That depends, can a gameboy emulator replace all of maemo?

Anyways, got to say that this is a interesting development, if it pans out. But it would really surprise me if one gains access to the app store...

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

The first Android port used a chroot to get it working, which is somewhat similar to the technique used here. Later ports have used a new kernel entirely. Does Dalvik need features in the newer kernels to work properly? If not, then this could really be a good idea.

Emulators of things that are considered to be operating systems or desktop environments should go here. Most game system emulators are a bit too limited in their scope to be considered "Alternatives".

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

No, but neither can Dalvik. :-)

Re: Android on Maemo and/or Mer
 

You'd have to ask that guy (Michael Fey) what it does or doesn't work with. I know he had to re-compile part of it to use Ubuntu's libc, instead of the custom libc in Android.

I agree that it could be a good thing: the best of both worlds, if it works out (Android's apps and strong Google integration, Maemo's full Linux environment and Maemo apps).