Will Linux phones stay around this time?

Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by mch82 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @08:41AM (#27014781)

You might have hit on a solution here: Electron, or, ideally, a really nice mobile-first web browser with access to APIs provided by the underlying Linux OS.

I’m essentially imagining a phone OS that decouples the front-end and backend design. Implement the apps as APIs. Implement the UI using HTML5 so more designers can use their existing skills to contribute & the GUI layer can be replaced more easily. The experience would be a refinement of pulling a Docker image and opening a browser to use it on localhost.

Edit: a mobile OS also needs a really nice mobile-first shell app. People do so much with text messaging now that I think they might be open to it…

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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by dasyatidprime on Sunday May 02, 2021 @10:26AM (#27015588)

There's a prior attempt in the form of Firefox OS, which tried to push the “Web technology as driver of local UI” thing. Some cursory looking around suggests that webOS may also have done this, but I'm not as sure (it would make sense from the name).

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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by wjertyj on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:03AM (#27015886)

You're basically describing WebOS and FirefoxOS.

WebOS lives on as LuneOS (and runs on the pinephone), but FirefoxOS effectively went closed source and became KaiOS.

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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by konart on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:54AM (#27015310)

Flutter or something similar + your backend of choice.

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