Ubuntu Android Interoperability
WIth Ubuntu's push into embedded devices, people may want to have access to their Android applications and features. This topic looks at Android hosted on Ubuntu. Another topic is looking at the reverse: https:/
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- Approver:
- Zach Pfeffer
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- Zach Pfeffer
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- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Zach Pfeffer
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Hi Zach and Carsten!
On 2011-05-09 14:42, Spetzler, Carsten (ADITG/SW1) wrote:
> Hi Xerxes,
>
> Zach told me that you have already tried to run Ubuntu and Android in
> parallel.
> I see some use cases where this would be also interesting for us.
Yes, for what i have heard during UDS some work have been performed by Linaro to get regular GTK applications to be visible on top of an android system by adding the X11 back-ends to Android.
In the IcedRobot project we try to do the opposite to make android applications visible on top of an unmodified Desktop GNU/Linux system like Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora by providing all API's that the Android application need.
>
> Some question regarding this:
>
> - Do you use the same kernel for both OS?
We are running IcedRobot on top of a regular Linux kernel without any android patches.
We aim to make IcedRobot operating-system agnostic in order to make android application run on top any system like QNX, Darwin etc, the only requirement are to have a working OpenJDK implementation.
> - What HW platform are you using?
Most testing have been performed using ARM and X86 hardware running Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.
> - What was/is the most challenging part in running them together?
When the project started creating the on-the-fly translator "Daneel"
that converts between Dalvik s, mostly untyped register based, .dex format to
Java, stricktly typed stack-based, .class format looked to be the most challenging and hard part of the project.
This hard part, Daneel, got implemented from nothing to something functional during the first two months of the project
by Rémi Forax and Michael Starzinger and it enable Android applications to be run unmodified and fast on top of OpenJDK.
We can make use of the powerful JIT's inside OpenJDK by using Daneel.
Michael have written two nice blog-post that describe the inner working of Daneel:
http://
http://
The current most challenging part that are ongoing are to get all Android services that Android applications expect to run outside without coupling to native implementations.
This work are time consuming, we spend a lot of effort to insert a new layer into the Android framework that let us replace the low-level interfaces that Android currently have implemented in C with pure Java implementations.
From the Android Applications point of view nothing have changed when this new layer are in place and this new layer are the key that allows us to run android applications without using an Android patched Linux kernel.
One part that these new layers solves are to make android applications render its screen canvas on top of a Java AWT window instead of using a native hardware surface, the GUI back-end plumbing have mostly been performed by Guillaume Legris.
http://
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> Thanks in advance,
> Carsten
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zach Pfeffer [mailto:<email address hidden>]
> Sent: Montag, 9. Mai 2011 14:26
> To: <email address hidden>; Spetzler, Carsten (ADITG/SW1)
> Subject: Ubuntu, Android and Bosch
>
> Xerxes and Carsten,
>
> Xerxes, I was fortunate to have lunch with Carsten and his colleagues
> who are interested in possibly running Ubuntu and Android. Perhaps you
> guys can help each other out.
>
> -Zach
I have CC Mario Torre who are one of the founders of the IcedRobot project.
Cheers and have a great day!
Xerxes
