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### what is this, again?
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When this project was first conceptualized, it was thought of as a translation layer - something
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akin to Wine. However, after becoming more familiar with the Android platform, it seems that
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there is a more interesting way to frame this.
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If you read through https://source.android.com/docs/compatibility/cdd, even the oldest linked
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https://source.android.com/static/docs/compatibility/1.6/android-1.6-cdd.pdf, you may be intrigued
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by the following:
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>... For this reason, the Android Open
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Source Project [Resources, 4] is both the reference and preferred implementation of Android. ...
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After reading through a reasonably recent version of this document, it would seem that a Linux
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distribution which uses this project to run android applications, and creatively interprets
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some of the requirements, could be shipped on a device and that device could be branded as
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an android device (provided that this project ever matures to a point where it can run
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the full compatibility test suite)
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While this is mostly fully academic, it suggests that this project could be seen as a work-in-progress
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core part of an alternative implementation of Android, or possibly as a reframing of the android
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platform as something akin to the Qt platform - a framework for applications to use, which is
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a pseudo-platform on top of a different platform (in Qt's case, this ensures easier portability
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of the resulting apps; in our case, the only platform we can realistically support is Linux,
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since most apps use native libraries. BSDs with Linux compatiblity layers should also work fwiw
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(THIS WAS NOT TESTED), but it's debatable whether that counts.) Funnily enough, bionic libc seems
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to be decently shimmable to either glibc or musl, so that gives us binary compatibility between
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glibc and musl systems.
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