@OpenComputeDesign @s31bz @light @admitsWrongIfProven
good feedback! i think #furiphone has support for #android apps (#waydroid iirc?) and back in the day so did #jolla / #sailfish - i think you can get those on a #sony these days
also i've run android-x86 in vm and its alright but idk what those apps are gonna try. supposedly only finance apps are allowed by google to check for a rooted phone but ... who knows https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use
@gael There's mention of a few abandoned projects in the F-Droid forum... What about if you run it on a server using something like #KasmWorkspaces with #WayDroid, #BlissOS, #AnboxCloud, #Puter, etc.?
Depending on how much you want to showcase... if it's just the UI perhaps you can recreate it in a #Penpot project and share?
The Pine Phone Pro arrived earlier this week. After a few unfocused, false starts I finally got it booting into Gnome and currently installing Waydroid over ssh.
My wife uses a cheesey coupon clipping app (iOS/Android) for doing the groceries and such. I'll need to take a look at what traffic flows in-n-out of this app to see what is being farmed and segregate/container off if required.
We are heavy Signal users but I may use this as an excuse to set up a XMPP server. Twas on the 'roadmap'.
Initial impressions are good. Definitely not as shiny and smooth as an iOS or Android device but - it's a phone. We spent half our lives with dumb rotary dialing doohickeys - we'll survive. lol
Pretty impressed with Gnome on a touch device so far. This is my first real experience with it. No 'klunkiness' so far but just scratching the surface.
It will be interesting to see how a non-technical person takes to it. I'm going to monkey with it myself for the first week or so to find the hard edges to save her the frustration.
I want to experiment with Android Auto - see what (if anything) is possible.
I also obtained a Seeed Studio Sensecap T1000-E (meshtastic, lora, etc.) to connect to this device. We'll see how far I get with that.
I really need a staff... Ha!
Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,
After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.
We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )
Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.
The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.
[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]
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@nivea @distrowatch I'm currently just running the original Signal Android client using #waydroid.
The original point was also that there are no good alternative clients. Running the official Signal Desktop app, which doesn't work on its own, but can only be linked to an existing Signal installation on an Android or Apple phone, is not an answer to that point.
@pocketvj I just found out mautrix-signal cannot register as the primary device. It uses device linking. So it still needs a second phone that runs Android or iOS.
That doesn't just not solve the issue, it also weakens security compared to other solutions.
So the gold standard remains just running the Signal Android client using #waydroid, which I have been doing on my #Furilabs #FLX1 for several months now.
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@F3715H @taedryn @alice @fdroidorg even works with #WayDroid or a #degoogled device...
In meinem neuen Video stelle ich das FuriPhone FLX1 im Detail vor! Erfahrt alles über dieses spannende Gerät, das auf Mobian basiert und dank Waydroid auch Android-Apps ausführen kann.
Im Unboxing-Teil zeige ich, wie das Phone bei mir ankam, und wir gehen gemeinsam die ersten Schritte zur Inbetriebnahme durch. Schaut rein!
Bon. Installer des dépendances supplémentaires sur une distro live, c'est horrRRRrriblement long -_-
Est-il possible d'installer Linux Mint en dual boot, faire les tests dont j'ai besoin, puis... Virer la partition Windows pour tourner à 100% sur Linux ?
was wondering why #waydroid internet wasn't working...
fucking docker.
just disabled it lol
Nee, de #Librem5 is geen Android phone. Het operating system is #PureOS, een op #Debian gebaseerde #Linux-distributie. Misschien zou het mogelijk zijn via #Waydroid, maar daar heb ik geen ervaring mee. Ik gebruik alleen native Linux-apps. Uit de PureOS-repository en van #Flathub:
@nicholasr @LinaroLtd the container solutions are great for user-space (I use #waydroid to run #minecraft for example). However if you want to validate kernel architectural behaviour or interactions between VMs you have to emulate the whole system.
From purely software standpoint of view, why is faking phone's TPM so difficult in order for Waydroid to pass SafetyNet?
I'm even willing to hook old Android phone to PC to use as safetynet device, but I can't find people has done such yet.
@Otis_Scops @linmob @awai @Liberux Like using Linux users a left out of tons of useful software for Windows and MacOS? ;-) But it surely will be possible to run Android apps using #waydroid (Containerization, like docker, see https://waydro.id/) and perhaps using #AndroidTranslationLayer (like wine, see https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer) in the future.
@cliffwade I run #Linux, #Linux, #KaiOS, and #Linux
The respective devices are: desktop, laptop, phone, and secondary phone (that I carry in situations where I might have to suddenly book a ticket or something)
Bonus: my #Kobo eReader technically runs Linux, albeit with a proprietary frontend (I still get #SSH and #busybox though!)
I also run #Waydroid on my Linux phone for a few stuff; that's not really a "device" though
I can take a photo or video from WhatsApp Web on #librem5 using #pipewire on top of #libcamera with software IPA. The funny part is that I can't, yet, doi the same thing with native WhatsApp on #WayDroid.