[ale] Riddle me this

[Richard Bronosky]

Android couldn't be anymore different from a vanilla Linux distro and
still be called Linux based. The only thing it really shares with
Linux is the kernel.

I can't speak to whether it would be easy for companies that make
Android apps to port them to Linux. The level of difficulty would vary
with every app. What more important is ROI potential. Right now a
company's market is a much larger with Android than Linux. That is why
you see Android apps with no Linux counterpart. Part of it is also the
challenges of distribution, installation, and support.

.!# RichardBronosky #!.


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good question. How different is Android from a vanilla Linux distro? I know
> Android use a Google JVM (Dalvik?). Are most apps written in Java/Scala? If
> they are, I would think porting would be relatively straightforward (I may
> be showing my ignorance).
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:44:12 -0400, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Riddle me this, why is that apps for android, which we all know is
>> Linux can play netflix, rebox, and other video feed, but Linux can't?
>> I am shocked with the number android apps that are there out there,
>> that no one has though of create an app like crossover for android to
>> Linux. It should be easy enough.
>>
>> With Flash dead for Linux, a lot of site that use it are now only a
>> later version, thus making Linux hard to view them, but these same
>> site have apps that work on android.
>>
>> Am I wrong to think, most apps for android, are nothing but web apps
>> any that that just have a nice interface that points to a url?
>>
>> Yes, I understand that android is written for Arm Processors, but you
>> think it would be easy to re-compile them for Linux.
>>
>> Just something I been wondering about as I have to create a windows
>> virt for my son to use club penguin and cartoon network, when cartoon
>> network app on android does the same thing on web, but only makes it
>> easier to spoon feed the masses.
>>
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