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 - especially implement the alternatives to GLSurfaceView (using SurfaceView to get an EGL surface, native activity, not sure if there are others?) which would allow us to support a few more 99%-native applications with relative ease
 
 - explore using bubblewrap to enforce the security policies that google helpfully forces apps to comply with (and our own security policies, like no internet access for apps which really shouldn't need it and are not scummy enough to refuse to launch without it)
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+##### Tips:
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+- the correct format for changing verbosity of messages going through android's logging library is `ANDROID_LOG_TAGS=*:v` (where `*` is "all tags" and `v` is "verbosity `verbose` or lesser"