LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by pjmlp on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:37AM (#26698164)

It makes perfectly sense, Android OS is not GNU/Linux, the Linux syscalls never were or will ever be part of the public API.

The public API is based on Java and a couple of NDK APIs, clearly enumerated by Google as stable APIs.

They can either adapt themselves to this reality, make use of those APIs in a mingw like way, creating wrappers, or die in their faith that Android is Linux, alongside countless attempts to GNU/Linux phones.

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by dvdkon on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:41PM (#26703634)

So they can either put in a monstrous effort to end up with a worse product or not be on the Play Store. I know what I'd choose. The kind of people who want Termux are capable of downloading an APK, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by pjmlp on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:48PM (#26705118)

APKs are deprecated, replaced by Android App Bundles, adapt or die.

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by dvdkon on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:51AM (#26709222)

You keep saying that, but I don't see Termux dying unless Google straight up disallows fork() for all apps, even old ones.

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by pjmlp on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:30PM (#26717634)

Given that fork() isn't part of stable APIs list, it might end in seccomp list.

But there is hope, just like with mingw, termux can use the OS official APIs to launch processes.

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