'SPURV' Project Brings Windowed Android Apps To Desktop Linux

'A new "experimental containerized Android environment" from a company
called Collabora allows Android apps to run in floating windows
alongside native applications on desktop Linux. You can read all the
technical details at the source link, but put simply, 'SPURV' creates
a virtual Android device on your Linux computer, much like Bluestacks
and other similar tools. There are various components of SPURV that
allow the Android environment to play audio, connect to networks, and
display hardware-accelerated graphics through the underlying Linux
system.

The most interesting part is 'SPURV HWComposer,' which renders Android
applications in windows, alongside the windows from native Linux
applications. This is what sets SPURV apart from (most) other methods
of running Android on a computer. For this to work, the Linux desktop
has to be using the Wayland display server (some Linux-based OSes use
X11). Pre-built binaries for SPURV are not currently available -- you
have to build it yourself from the source code. Still, it's an
interesting proof-of-concept, and hopefully someone turns it into a
full-featured product. '

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/04/03/2222207

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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