Comments on: What If Ubuntu Could Run Android Applications? It Can.

By: LD

LD — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:43:58 +0000

If it bothered Google that people are hacking ‘droid to work in Linux and other OS’s then they wouldn’t have released it with any part of android with an open licence.

the author makes it sound like Google is frowning upon people getting android to work everywhere. like that is a bad thing or something.

By: pacobuntu

pacobuntu — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:45:41 +0000

Im not a programmer, im super-novice in terminal in ubuntu, and haven’t even rooted my droid.
However I do use ubuntu as my main machine and have a droid x. I would love if I could synch everything in my phone with a vm or some kind of integrated programming for phone experimentation purposes. The droid netbook shown by Grant does look sweet!!
anyway I digress. Id like to see more movement in the direction of being fully able to integrate a droid and a linux machine, so this is an encouraging step.

By: spanku

spanku — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:18:23 +0000

i think android and ubuntu is a great idea. i have a hp tx2 with 12″ touch screen. perfect hardware for this setup since ubuntu already supports touch for it. ive used the vm with android and touch works great. everything is going to have touch in the future even netbooks or tablets, we already see on phones. android is good with touch almost as good as iphone. ubuntu is in the game to win. im sure we will see great things.

By: fabian

fabian — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:36:33 +0000

It’s cool but it should better support normal and good webcams, and work faster

By: mlo

mlo — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:41:47 +0000

I think this is awesome, I would love to be able to have Android apps running as widgets on my linux machine. I would also love cool apps like Shazam and iMusic…also, if you want to put ubuntu onto a small device, why not have the ability to take apps from an operating system designed for smaller devices? You might want to have the ability to use OpenOffice, or what have you, but you might also want to use some of the apps designed for the mobile devices…just a thought.

Does anybody know how to get in on this? I would love to beta and help develop this!

By: Continuous

Continuous — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:20:27 +0000

So, a phone that runs ubuntu, or is it ubuntu that runs the phone, perhaps GSM plugin for my netbook (what part do I put to my ear?) Surely all we need is a vnc/rdp webclient to access any desktop we choose?

The real issue is who trusts google?

By: Droid

Droid — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:37:18 +0000

Much as like my droid, it is small and inconvenient for
setup/configuration/maintenance. I would like something
like VNC where I could remotely work the Droid from my
Ubuntu netbook. Bluetooth might be preferable for low power,
but I would be happy with USB or wifi. It would also be
nice that the PC would have a complete backup of the Droid
for disaster recovery and then let’s get the apps sync’d.
Where is Tomboy?
Thanks you very much
D

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:10:32 +0000

Well, I think this could be usefull to limited hardware. I mean, we can try work this pice of enviroment, under old hardware, or may be, some small processor, like VIA C3. I will try work in it, and I will post my results. Nice Post.

By: Matthew Gaunt

Matthew Gaunt — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:07:54 +0000

Right just found the first application I would be wanting to have on Ubuntu which is running on Android – Spotify

By: Matthew Gaunt

Matthew Gaunt — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:59:02 +0000

Darion you are spot on – everything should be sychronised and working together, so why not synchronise why Ubuntu OS? :-P

I think at the end of the day this will boil down to personal taste, if people are willing to write the netbook like apps for the Android platform. I think Ubuntu has done this to get itself back in the light of netbooks since so much emphasis has been on Android on netbooks.

I.M.O. Microsoft are going to make a big mistake if they choose to go down the Windows 7 Starter root (http://blog.gauntface.co.uk/2009/04/20/netbooks-linux-windows-what-to-do/) – people will want another option and hence the reason for why Ubuntu came up with Netbook Remix – If Canonical can get Android phone syncing nicely they will achieve something alot of people have been getting annoyed with (phones not syncing with Ubuntu). Like I said if Android gets the right apps and someone can make it easy to install or netbook manufacturing decide to pre-install it then maybe Android will be another choice.

Conclusion : It’s an open market for Netbook OS’s where money is the biggest concern

By: twrock

twrock — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:34:02 +0000

I’ve been using Palm PDA products for years. My current Palm TX is a little computer in my pocket, capable of all sorts of useful tasks and holding a wide variety of information that I want available “all the time”. This goes so far beyond the basic built-in apps that I have six pages of apps in my TX’s program launcher. But there are also times when I’ve been working at my computer and found myself wishing I had the exact app and data on my computer that I have on my TX. If there is a desktop “equivalent” app and my data is available for that, great (i.e. Dataviz DocsToGo on my Palm and Office on my desktop). But there are apps and data on my Palm that I can’t get at via the desktop.

What I want to get to is a fully Linux based operating environment for all of my computing needs, including my cellphone. And I want all my data on my phone to be available on my desktop via a complete synchronisation of data and to have the corresponding apps on my desktop that can access that data. So if Ubuntu lets me run Android apps, I can certainly see a value in that, specifically if this first step of allowing Android apps to run on the desktop eventually results in the ability to completely synchronise data between the two “computers”.

By: X3HaloEd

X3HaloEd — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:23:45 +0000

I agree with Matthew. I don’t feel there is a real practical use for running Android or Android apps on a netbook.

By: HereAndNow

HereAndNow — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:02:27 +0000

I think this is just the beginning of something that could be very exciting.

Android, Moblin & Ubuntu each have their own unique strengths. The challenge is to find the right formula, to blend them together.

By: Darion

Darion — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:31:18 +0000

This is so cool, but I hope there is comming a real android pc OS. As i read lots of comments about why and office for a phone? I ask you one thing doesnt windows mobile has that also and isnt that great? Everything is with every thing connected. One full sicronisched system!

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:23:36 +0000

@kurtis and @Mattew Guant

Where the hell were you guys last week when I needed you!! I was all like “Android… netbook… why?!?” *sigh. If you haven’t read it already, check out the article on the android netbook made by Playstation… I mean.. some company in China.

http://phandroid.com/2009/05/14/alpha-680-android-netbook-poses-for-camera/

I admit, I was initially enticed by the idea of implementing Android on other platforms too… but then I saw THAT… and I realized that putting Android on a computer (that’s not a phone or tablet), is like giving a spork to 50 foot giant: useful, but highly inadequate.