Android on Ubuntu

May 28, 2009

Michael Frey, Canonical developer and member of the OEM team, has shown at the UDS in Spanish Barcelona that Google's Android can run on Ubuntu.

This is the first time that Android applications have been proven to work on a standard distribution. Android has been successfully ported onto the x86 architecture many times, but always the whole stack, including the kernel. On his blog, Frey explains that by building Android against the libc of the host, the OEM team from Ubuntu have now succeeded in getting the GUI component (Java) to work under Ubuntu.

Android on Ubuntu
The best of two worlds: Android on Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

Michael Frey presented the first prototypes at the Ubuntu Developer Summit which is taking place in Barcelona this week.

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    Just remember, the rock solid base that Ubuntu has to work with: Debian Linux.

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