One very upsetting thing for me is not being able to run Ingress on N9, so I would like to ask if anybody in this awesome community was able to solve this. With nitdroid being dead and apkenv not really developing is there any way to still achieve this? Has anybody tried extracting Jolla's Android compatibility layer and running it in N9 environment? Any other pointers/suggestions for me to try to get Ingress client on N9?

Forget. Not possible in this lifetime.