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Re:Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on fut... by synergy20 on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:47AM (#38219483)
android apps is more than an interop or JNI calls, it needs the "jvm" and lots of java libraries, docker-alike solution is the only thing I can think of that it could possibly work, but it's very heavy on cpu and memory resources when you have many apps to install. it seems to me infeasible to be Android apps compatible when Vega is used, nobody is going to rewrite all Android apps in RN.
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Re:Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on fut... by pjmlp on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:51AM (#38219536)
Ah, I misunderstood your point, I took it from the point of view of how React Native is used in the context of writing Android applications.

As for Amazon, naturally if this goes forward they don't seem to care about keeping the Android ecosystem on their Fire tablets, as most likely doesn't bring them the business value they care about.

Note that FireOS doesn't run standard Android applications anyway.

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Re:Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on fut... by doubled112 on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:24AM (#38219978)
> Note that FireOS doesn't run standard Android applications anyway

What do you mean by that?

I have a Fire Tab, and it has F-Droid and I've installed many apps from there with no extra steps.

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Re:Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on fut... by synergy20 on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:41AM (#38220212)
I have a Fire Tab and it's collecting dust, I'm fairly certain Vega won't be able to do F-Droid, which is a bold move.
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Re:Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on fut... by pjmlp on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:19PM (#38222430)
Because it doesn't run AOSP + Google special sauce on top.

I guess you were lucky in what APIs were being used, or the wrappers provided by Amazon.

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