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I hope for a Linux phone to pop up and become widespread someday. Maybe if Android emulation on Linux improves so people can at the very least use Android apps while running Linux a phone like that might become a possibility in the future.
One would think the fact that Android is Linux should jumpstart that somewhat. But here we are.
Nah, the kernel isn't that important for apps - you can replace the kernel and update the massive Android framework to work with the new one relatively easily (you will need some Linux compatibility for native code that does syscalls on its own, but that's pretty much it - even WSL1 could do that).
It's all the APIs and system apps provided by Google that have no reasonable alternative in AOSP that are the problem for compatibility. Look how incomplete projects like MicroG (an open-source implementation of Google Play Services) are, and their only goal is to provide Android compatibility for unofficial ROMs without installing the proper Google services.
I'm hoping for a really good translation layer. Like WINE, but for APKs.
Say goodbye to banking apps :(
I can't think of a single thing my banking apps do that I can't do in a web browser
Double pay, constantly time out, always ask to save login information every single time no matter what answer you get.
Browser never does any of that.
it is a possibility now. i had waydroid running on a pinephone running postmarketos. pinephone is horribly slow. im planning on replacing the screen on my last phone (why i switched) and putting postmarketos on my fairphone, to give it a fair shake on decent hardware.