Thread: [SailfishOS] [DEV] sfdroid: run android in a window
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2016-08-31 , 16:58
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Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
So,

sfdroid currently runs Android in a window. This is a great memory requirement, we all know.

But, as far as I understand, Android itself simply runs the Java apps in the VM, in this case: ART Dalvik VM.

Is there anything that prevents us from doing the same on Sailfish: setting up the ART and running the Android apps directly there?
you can set up the dalvik vm and run basic command line apps. but without android services there would be no GUI

thp has managed to run the dalvik vm on his n9 and i replicated the same. i even implemented it in apkenv: apkenv now has a mode to support games running with some support for the dalvik vm. but there is lack of a java environment which the apps can call into so we still use modules for each game.
 

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