Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps

Well, here's a wild new spin on the Android for netbooks debate: Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is creating an Android execution environment that would allow Android apps to run on Ubuntu and other desktop-style Linux distros, which seems like the best of both worlds for netbooks in most cases. Canonical already has a working prototype of the execution environment, and plans on making the necessary changes to the kernel in its next version of Ubuntu to give Android all the juice it needs at the core level and will open source the project soon. Things are still early, and there's a lot of work to do before this is going to really make the highly specialized Java-based Android apps actually usable on regular Linux -- they're currently working on granting Android access to the Ubuntu file system, for instance -- but we love where this is headed.

[Thanks, Michael Y.; Image courtesy of Scott James Remnant]

[JJjjjjjjjjjj Posted May 27th 2009 12:18AM]

Neat.

[TheWB Posted May 27th 2009 6:29AM]

That would be fantastic -- the best of both -- your netbook running your mobile phone apps. That opens up a whole lot of possibilities!

[HereAndNow Posted May 27th 2009 7:56AM]

Not only netbooks. I use Ubuntu on my desktop & I think it would be awesome to be able to use some of the cool Android apps on it. This development could really add scalability to Android (i.e. from Android-only, power/size constrained devices, all the way to full Ubuntu/Android desktops). Cool!

[devil Posted May 27th 2009 10:07AM]

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