Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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2010-01-30 , 01:38
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Portable?... eh.. The Google Market works in older and newer androids alike due to the davlik VM environment...
No; it works on multiple devices because Android has a stable API along versions. Which can either mean "good API design abilities" (usual commercial PoV) or "very slow progress" (Linus' PoV).

(It doesn't help that we build binaries for armv7, but "flipping the switch" and starting building armv4 binaries which would even work on the 770 is way more trivial than creating a VM, and the end result might be even faster).
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