Support for Android apps
Silmathoron
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For the foreseeable futur, many people wanting to daily drive mobile Linux may still have to use Android applications (banking, etc).
At the moment, Waydroid seems to be the main way to do it, however, it may not be the most efficient way. Determining what would be the most promising method and funding its development could be interesting for this group. In particular before we decide on Waydroid camera and BT support.
In particular, other methods that I have in mind include the android translation layer or the (currrently proprietary) tooling from SailfishOS, Aliendalvik, which is apparently what is getting traction at the moment (see boiling the ocean hackfest)
Pirate Praveen Thu 2 Jan 2025 10:00AM
Btw Monocles Chat audio calls and Organic Maps voice guided navigation now works.
Ravi Dwivedi Thu 2 Jan 2025 4:15PM
@Pirate Praveen Thanks for providing instructions on how to generate the OpenVPN config file. It makes running Riseup VPN independent of their app.
Silmathoron Tue 12 Nov 2024 8:29AM
@Pirate Praveen good to hear!
Also worth mentioning that ATL just got funding from NLNet: https://nlnet.nl/project/ATL/
Pirate Praveen · Thu 2 Jan 2025 9:56AM
@Ravi Dwivedi yes, riseup vpn inside waydroid will apply only to apps inside container. I use mull browser. But later I figured out running riseup vpn using openvpn without their app. So I can use riseup vpn on host or in container now.
See https://github.com/BarbossHack/RiseupVPN-OpenVPN for the script. You can generate openvpn configuration file and then run openvpn command. If the vpn stop working after sometime, you can regenerate the config file.
That was about Simplex Chat only.