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TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile (gitlab.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Canuck@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I was searching for YouTube clients on my KDE Plasma Bigscreen GNU/Linux TV box, and found NewPipe, a popular Android YouTube frontend. Turns out this tool is how they moved it over.

Great solution alongside projects like Waydroid, as you can post individual apps to Flathub or other Linux storefronts, rather than needing to install a whole ROM to get your Android apps to appear in your Linux app tray.

It doesn't work like Wine, but I suppose the goal one day is to be able to click .APK files to install like you can with .EXE files with Wine. Currently developers need to integrate it for their (or their favourite open source) apps to install on Linux.

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[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 212 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (20 children)

With Google attempting to further lockdown Android, the time is ripe for Linux Mobile. Projects like this can help make it a viable alternative.

Thank you so much to everyone working on this!

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 45 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Was just gonna say this. I'm currently using GrapheneOS and am concerned about how long my pixel 8a will last with Google being such assholes. But if this app can solve the issue of not having android, then I'd definitely switch to a Linux phone (with further research of course).

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 38 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Graphene is working with a major phone Maker and will be releasing a Graphene compatible phone in 1-2 years

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