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Idea #23492: Easy Install of Android apps on Ubuntu

bug This entry was marked as not being an idea the 30 January 10. If this is a bug report, please use the Ubuntu bug tracker.
Written by hellocatfood the 27 Jan 10 at 21:27. Related project: Add/Remove program dialog. Status: Not an idea
Rationale
There already is a lot of software available for Linux/oubuntu. In the two years that Android has been around it has amassed around 20,000 applications. Whilst not all of them are open source, giving developers of either platforms yet another market to target would be a great incentive to build applications for Linux

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Solution #1: Allow Android applications to be installed on Ubuntu
Written by hellocatfood the 27 Jan 10 at 21:27.
finding a way to very easily (as simple as double-clicinking) install Android apps would give developers an new market to target and would put ubuntu in a better position to be installed on netbooks, tablets and other smaller devices.

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 30 Jan 10 at 04:43
Does the Android Emulator licence permit it to be packaged in an Ubuntu Repository?

If so, please file a needs-packaging bug.

If not, see http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Run-Android-Applications-on-Ubuntu-115152 .shtml for the simple installation instructions.

Closing in Brainstorm.

hellocatfood wrote on the 30 Jan 10 at 12:46
I'm not asking how to emulate them under Ubuntu. The idea is for native support and then have them in the software centre.

motin wrote on the 15 Apr 10 at 09:46
Why is this marked as not-a-bug? Canonical was on to something in may last year, but hasn't shown any progress for months and months. Read this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9125232

And please mark this a valid idea + help promote it! :)

mtiddens wrote on the 27 Mar 11 at 20:54
PC's need apps, or they may die! Smart phones and tablets are exciting. Why? Because they have a great user interface -- apps! PC's are boring, techy, and the desktop screen is hardly used. Putting Android apps on PC desktops will make PC's exciting again!

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 28 Mar 11 at 16:29
It's not a question of 'allowing' Android apps to install to Ubuntu. It's not forbidden. This idea was closed because the original author did not suggest any useful or reasonable way to make it happen. And nobody else has either.

The original author rejected the idea of virtualization, though it would meet the Rationale (and that's how the SDK does it). Nobody has suggested, for example, a team of volunteers to recompile Android apps from source into Ubuntu packages. Nobody has suggested an 'Android-friendly' metapackage of tools and libs to make native installation possible. Nobody has suggested UI guidelines so packages are more easily portable between the two environments. Nobody has suggested lots of other implied tasks.

So I just don't see much interest in this idea.

mtiddens wrote on the 28 Mar 11 at 19:09
It is no longer correct that "nobody has suggested". You just did. Thanks! But if Ubuntu does not pursue it, it will die, as well other old-style operating systems on as old-style PC's. It's a great opportunity for Ubuntu. Meanwhile, the only alternative (other than using tablet PC's) will be the Android OS on PC's, which is becoming available...

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 29 Mar 11 at 00:16
The Idea needs much more than just complaining, ranting, hyperbole, or hand-wringing to work - which is all it's received so far. Vague statements of support -or catastrophe- are irrelevant in Brainstorm. They do not contribute to the solution or discussion, nor do they convince anyone with lots of extra resources to work on the problem...because those people don't hang out in Brainstorm.

A implementable solution to the Rationale needs an achievable goal, it needs volunteers, it needs a plan, it needs resources, and it needs leadership. It needs Solutions to figure all those out.

I didn't add those comments as Solutions, which is what's necessary to reopen this idea. You are welcome to those, as long as you also add a few of your own.


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