[ale] Riddle me this

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

I think you can run an Android instance within Linux or Windows, if that helps any.  Google android for x86 I think.

Ron



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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