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		raimue on April 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jolla is the last company with an 'alternative' mo... The Android compatibility layer is actually Alien Dalvik developed by Myriad. It is mostly used on set-top boxes for TVs. Jolla just licensed it for their phones. As far as I know, even on the latest Sailfish X, Alien Dalvik only supports the API level of Android 4.4 (2013).

shmerl on April 16, 2018 [–]

It's really weird that supposedly open source Android runtime is so hard to actually run on proper Linux.

progval on April 16, 2018 | [–]

Not really. We can't run some Linux software on BSD either. (eg. Gnome, because it depends on systemd, which depends on Linux-specific features).

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