How is this for an Idea?
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How is this for an Idea?
Ok so this idea is very far from being a reality but....
What if ROS could run Android Apps? In concept its not to hard to imagine, create a subsystem based on AOSP, download an APK, select compatibility mode, Android Nougat, presto, a Windows like OS running Android Apps.
I'm not saying it would easy, or that they SHOULD do it, I'm just posting an opinion and seeing peoples thought.
What if ROS could run Android Apps? In concept its not to hard to imagine, create a subsystem based on AOSP, download an APK, select compatibility mode, Android Nougat, presto, a Windows like OS running Android Apps.
I'm not saying it would easy, or that they SHOULD do it, I'm just posting an opinion and seeing peoples thought.
Re: How is this for an Idea?
Why? There's already an OS that runs Android apps.
Still if the idea of bolting Android on to ReactOS as a subsystem fascinates you, then you can design and write the code to do it. That's the advantage of free open source software (FOSS).
Still if the idea of bolting Android on to ReactOS as a subsystem fascinates you, then you can design and write the code to do it. That's the advantage of free open source software (FOSS).
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
https://www.bluestacks.com/about-us/app ... .html#gref
Apparently this program allows you to run Android apps on Windows. See if it works In ROS?
Apparently this program allows you to run Android apps on Windows. See if it works In ROS?
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
Hi, I'm pretty sure that is an emulator, I think zlm meant native running. Maybe.karlexceed wrote:https://www.bluestacks.com/about-us/app ... .html#gref
Apparently this program allows you to run Android apps on Windows. See if it works In ROS?
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
It's as much an emulator as Dalvik/ART is one. Andoid APKs are Java crap and runs in there as native as possible
ReactOS is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete and is recommended only for evaluation and testing purposes.
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
And i think you might think that ReactOS is a unix. IT IS NOT. >.<
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
I wanted to clear a few things up. No I didn't want an emulator, emulation is the easy way out, I was talking about a "Compatibility mode" for Android apps.
I acknowledged it isn't something needed, I have 7 Android phones at home, but I was just asking "Wouldn't it be cool if" of course I never expected someone to drop critical resources of say, making ROS work with USB to implement a Android based subsystem, it doesn't even work with most of the XP programs people throw at it.
I was inspired by ChromeOS running Android apps, and no I do not think ROS is Unix/Linux based.
Sooooo... To reask wouldn't it be cool if ROS version 1.75 could run Android app... That's all I was asking, not version. 0.4.8, not version 0.7.5, it is just an idea I had
I acknowledged it isn't something needed, I have 7 Android phones at home, but I was just asking "Wouldn't it be cool if" of course I never expected someone to drop critical resources of say, making ROS work with USB to implement a Android based subsystem, it doesn't even work with most of the XP programs people throw at it.
I was inspired by ChromeOS running Android apps, and no I do not think ROS is Unix/Linux based.
Sooooo... To reask wouldn't it be cool if ROS version 1.75 could run Android app... That's all I was asking, not version. 0.4.8, not version 0.7.5, it is just an idea I had
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
AKA, when we have Chrome working ^^ Chrome runs Android apps to an extent.
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
Yeah I guess that that would work
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Re: How is this for an Idea?
Now, if someone wanted to do this, I can think of a couple of approaches. One is to add an alternative subsystem.
But another approach I've seen mentioned (refused to look at the source to not be dirty in case I do jump on board here at some point), at least for emulators, is to modify HAL. For instance, I think someone had mixed the GENS emulator in with HAL so you could double-click on a Sega image and run the game. The 68000 series CPU isn't that hard to emulate (though there are 3 other chips of note to emulate such as the Creative Labs compatible sound chip OPL or a cousin, a noise generator, and the Z80 which is used as a coprocessor, percussion sounds, and for D/A conversion).
Anyway, my point is that folks have modified the Windows HAL to run various things that normally don't run in Windows.
What would be nice for the ARM people, not the interest of me or most here, would be an ARM port of ReactOS and made to where it can run both Android and Windows apps. In that case, the x86 stuff would need the emulation. Since Android is a Linux, I guess the ROS port might need a POSIX subsystem or something. But I don't know.
But another approach I've seen mentioned (refused to look at the source to not be dirty in case I do jump on board here at some point), at least for emulators, is to modify HAL. For instance, I think someone had mixed the GENS emulator in with HAL so you could double-click on a Sega image and run the game. The 68000 series CPU isn't that hard to emulate (though there are 3 other chips of note to emulate such as the Creative Labs compatible sound chip OPL or a cousin, a noise generator, and the Z80 which is used as a coprocessor, percussion sounds, and for D/A conversion).
Anyway, my point is that folks have modified the Windows HAL to run various things that normally don't run in Windows.
What would be nice for the ARM people, not the interest of me or most here, would be an ARM port of ReactOS and made to where it can run both Android and Windows apps. In that case, the x86 stuff would need the emulation. Since Android is a Linux, I guess the ROS port might need a POSIX subsystem or something. But I don't know.
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