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2016-06-05 , 22:54
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#254
Originally Posted by abranson View Post

Alien Dalvik lets Android apps sit on top of Mer, and simulates the rest of Android for them. For instance, Whatsapp is given a view on the Sailfish/Mer address book, as if it were the Android one.
I think Dalvik bypasses Mer / SF entirely, at least for basic command queues and resource management, rather than sitting on top of it.

Hence why Android apps inside it don't have the task scheduling / big performance hit that native SF apps do ...

Until Jolla fix that (they've known about it at least 18 months, if not since the beginning), they're better off making swipe based Android apps and improving AD integration.***

If I have to bet money, they won't have fixed it for the Intex phone (Jolla C) ... and half the cores will be useless, and the other half not being kept busy enough in SF.

*** It's not an inherent thing with libhybris, since Ubuntu Touch uses it and doesn't have this issue at all, and also sits on top of Android drivers and CyanogenMod.