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    can we port .apk of android to a maemo app ?

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    Psycho | # 1 | 2010-10-01, 07:29 | Report

    Hi guys,

    Im sitting in the train ight now, going to study.. And a friend off mine showed a app of android who has the school schedule of when the lessons starts..

    so i want that damn app too is it possible to port it ??

    greets,

    psych

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    jedi | # 2 | 2010-10-01, 07:41 | Report

    Simple answer: no

    It's not a trivial process by any means....

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    Psycho | # 3 | 2010-10-01, 07:45 | Report

    argh... okay -_- thnx anyway..

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    TDSii | # 4 | 2010-11-02, 23:40 | Report

    they found a solution for ipk, what about apk?

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    javispedro | # 5 | 2010-11-02, 23:46 | Report

    In case you wonder, .ipk == .deb . This is the first out of a long list of similarities between WebOS and Maemo (and also desktop Linux).

    Android is too different. This is one of the reasons I despise it.

    It is doable, sure, but not in an afternoon.

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    Biglines | # 6 | 2010-11-03, 00:02 | Report

    your confusing filenames with things that actually matter :P

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    2beers | # 7 | 2010-11-03, 00:05 | Report

    riiiight...
    1. I never tried
    2. It's Linux - so i guess there should be source code available. Get the source, try to compile & i guess u will go mad after the 20th missing dependency... But u can do it in principle...
    3. http://www.softrecipe.com/System-Uti...rcconvert.html
    They say u can convert....
    I am on Linux for years & only to think about a tool that let's u convert from 1 package to another on a windows machine makes me shiver.
    Btw - .deb is the package u would want for maemo...

    I guess it's easier to try find a native debian solution. Maybe in some ubuntu's Netbook repro's. Still that will be *quite* some work if it's not allready here on maemo.

    If u don't understand what i'm talking about u will most likely not build the pkg by yourself too soon. By the time u prob. don't need a timetable anymore

    BUT - it's Linux & if u wanna learn howto do things like that u sure can!
    Maybe start to learn how to compile your first program all by yourself - best on a bigger (faster) machine than the n900 with any Linux.

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    lunat | # 8 | 2010-11-03, 00:06 | Report

    Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
    In case you wonder, .ipk == .deb . This is the first out of a long list of similarities between WebOS and Maemo (and also desktop Linux).

    Android is too different. This is one of the reasons I despise it.

    It is doable, sure, but not in an afternoon.
    just curious how do you do that? i don't know much about android so excuse the dumb question.

    i undstood android uses java? am i wrong?
    if it is java: doesn't java mean you have to write a port to make it run? or is it posible to do some binary compiling from the java?

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    lfcobra | # 9 | 2010-11-03, 00:08 | Report

    what you're talking about (running android apps on linux and ultimately maemo) is what this developer is working on.

    http://mjfrey.blogspot.com/

    Very interesting project to keep an eye on.

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    pycage | # 10 | 2010-11-03, 05:25 | Report

    Android is not GNU/Linux.
    Damn, this GNU-prefix now really DOES matter thanks to Google.

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