@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Jolla and how he brought it to GNOME Linux mobile.
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https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/
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@sonny @verdre amazing! While there are not as many Sailfish OS apps many of them are quite nice and it would be great for the linux mobile phone community to have access to as many apps as possible and remove the OS fragmentation- would it be easier or harder to get these apps to run in Arch or other mobile linux distributions? As far as i know there is no effort to port SFOS apps over..
@goatwildernesscollective @sonny pretty sure that large parts of the Sailfish OS ui code are proprietary. I don’t know if that’s also the case for the widget libraries that apps are using… if those are open source, it should be easy to run sailfish apps on other distros, it’d be mainly a matter of distributing them outside of Jolla store then.