Anbox - Android in a Box

Posted Apr 20, 2017 11:59 UTC (Thu) by excors (subscriber, #95769)
In reply to: Anbox - Android in a Box by robbe
Parent article: Anbox - Android in a Box

There were enough non-x86-compatible apps that Intel thought it worthwhile to develop and maintain an ARM-to-x86 binary translator for Android (called Houdini).

Maybe awareness of x86 devices is growing and maybe more-recently-developed apps are more likely to build for x86. If developers are testing in the official Android emulator then it's also worth building for x86, since the x86 version of the emulator is hugely faster than the ARM version.

But on the other hand, since Intel gave up and cancelled most of its Android-compatible smartphone and tablet SoCs last year, I suspect their market share isn't shifting anywhere but downwards.

Anbox - Android in a Box

Posted May 31, 2017 3:51 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (2 responses)

Some relevant links...

https://01.org/android-IA
https://lwn.net/Articles/701964/
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2017/05/18/intel-e...

Anbox - Android in a Box

Posted May 31, 2017 13:33 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

The android AI link comes complete with a copy of the 'GNU GENERAL PUBLIC End User License Agreement', which suggests that whoever laid out that website needs a bit of re-education: the GPL constrains redistributors, not end users, who don't even need to know it exists.

Anbox - Android in a Box

Posted May 31, 2017 15:45 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Actually, the distributor is obliged to "conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice .. and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program".

An end-user may never need to care about having to comply with the GPL, however they /do/ have to be informed about the fact they have rights under the GPL to the software they have received from the distributor.