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Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Posted Feb 22, 2012 3:31 UTC (Wed) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android by karim
Parent article: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Android apps are just java. There should be no problem running them outside of Android, given the right libraries. I believe the Android SDK includes all that.

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Posted Feb 22, 2012 4:13 UTC (Wed) by ThinkRob (subscriber, #64513) [Link]

> Android apps are just java.

Not quite. They're written (mostly) in Java, but they're not Java apps per se, as they compile to different bytecode and run on a different VM (Dalvik, not a JVM.)