Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android [LWN.net]

Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Posted Feb 22, 2012 6:28 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android by karim
Parent article: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Probably they run them on the Android side and just use rendered surfaces.

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Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:14 UTC (Wed) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link] (2 responses)

I'd love to see the code for that.

Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Posted Feb 22, 2012 22:07 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (guest, #31018) [Link] (1 responses)

Well you have only one graphics driver, and it's on Android's side, so that implies SurfaceFlinger is the ultimate compositor and Ubuntu is just one object (albeit using the full second screen), correct? Having the Android app display on top of the Ubuntu desktop is then just a compositing issue: "blit that window on top of that framebuffer at that position".

Please let me know if I'm talking BS :-)

Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Posted Feb 22, 2012 22:14 UTC (Wed) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

Your guess is as probably better than mine. I'd just like to see how that code does it.