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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/2232894

Since https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1gdhy7u/experimental_flathub_release_of_newpipe_on_linux/ got a bit of traction yesterday, this is WhatsApp straight from Meta running on Linux desktop using android-translation-layer.

android-translation-layer (ATL) is a Wine-like approach to run Android applications on Linux. Rather than running an Android container like for example Waydroid does this instead implements the Android API. Note that right now it's very much work in progress and almost no app will work yet, but the fact that they have apps like Newpipe and WhatsApp running already is very promising!

Join the Matrix chat at #android-translation-layer:matrix.org and follow along!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Oh damn, I am wanting linux on my phone more and more

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

This is very promising. I'm excited to see where this goes. Soon I might finally be able to run Linux on my phone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is indeed interesting, but doesn't fix the fundamental issue of banking etc. apps refusing to run on non-stock Android versions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I reckon that requires a legislative solution, not just a technological one.