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[Q]What Linux OS for developing Android?

Hello, my question is what is the best Linux OS to develop android for our lovely x8

According to the grapevine Google is using Ubuntu amd64 for Android development.

i use linux mint as my main OS. it works for me. especially for when im using android SDK and NDK in terminal. but you can use ubuntu. but i dont like ubuntu

I have used Ubuntu before as my main os, it was running quite well so I'll try with it, thanks.

Can't we just develop Android using windows??

azyar said:
Can't we just develop Android using windows??
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Yeah, what's the difference?

azyar said:
Can't we just develop Android using windows??
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Chris95X8 said:
Yeah, what's the difference?
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Well... I think the question of the thread was:
[Q]What Linux OS for developing Android?
The question was NOT:
[Q]What Linux OS for developing Android Apps?
Like it or not, but you need a Linux system to get the stunt of Android compilation done. While I'm sure that you can edit the source of Android in Notepad++ in Windows as well I don't think you can compile Android directly in Windows.
Normal application development can be done in Windows, Linux or OS X - the SDK/NDK is available for all three of them.

can i install Ubuntu and run it on my windows desktop??

i wanted to kno if i could run ubuntu on my windows pc?? i dont need to use it rite now but i would like to learn how to use it in case i ever need it... thanks

evo401 said:
i wanted to kno if i could run ubuntu on my windows pc?? i dont need to use it rite now but i would like to learn how to use it in case i ever need it... thanks
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Yes you can you can either dual boot windows and linux or run it in a virtual machine or you can use a special installer that essentially allows you to install linux like any other windows application and uninstall it when you want to get rid of it.
I assume you want to get into android development maybe compile android from source. I'd recommend ubuntu and until the kinks are worked out I'd go with ubuntu 11.10 which you can get here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/
Information on dual booting windows and linux:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/10/27/dual-boot-ubuntu-11-10-windows-7-on-a-pc-with-2-hard-drives/2/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Running linux in a virtual machine:
https://www.virtualbox.org
Install linux using special installer (wubi):
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/wubi.exe
Hope this helps you if you need any help feel free to ask or if you want some guides on developing android on linux (compiling from source, kernels, etc.) I can help with that to
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sweet!!!! good looking out bro!! just what i was looking for :good:

evo401 said:
sweet!!!! good looking out bro!! just what i was looking for :good:
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Always glad to help let me know like I said if you want some guides on compiling linux on android and suff like that ... oh what the heck here are some guides:
Official Google guide to building Android from source on Linux
Official Google guide to building Android Kernel from source on Linux
Build Cyanogenmod from Source
How to use Github for Android Development
Basic commands for Linux and Android

Moved to Off-topic.

The easiest way to install Ubuntu is to use Wubi. It lets you install Ubuntu like a regular application in Windows.
- Download Wubi
- Choose Ubuntu in the list
- Click install
- It'll download and install Ubuntu for you
- Reboot and choose Ubuntu at boot
- You're done.
If you want to remove Ubuntu from your computer, you simply boot into Windows and uninstall it like a regular application If you decide to permanently keep it i recommend you install it by itself on a separate partition. That way it'll run better. But if you just plan to try it and you're not planning on running some heavy stuff (games etc.), then Wubi will do it just fine.

Linux instead Android

Hi, I would like to run linux instead android, -WOLF- from 4pda.ru have done this with his samsung galaxy spica and I would like to do the same for our OB.Here is origina thread on 4pda.ru but it is all in russan.I tried to make a kernel with frambuffer console and sdcard as root directory but it failed.So anyone who can cook kernels please help.Then, when kernel is done we will try to run linux(ubuntu, andstrom, etc.).
Thank u!
Here is angstroms LFS for abstract smarphone and people wich port it to their devices

suleymanovemil8 said:
Hi, I would like to run linux instead android, -WOLF- from 4pda.ru have done this with his samsung galaxy spica and I would like to do the same for our OB.Here is origina thread on 4pda.ru but it is all in russan.I tried to make a kernel with frambuffer console and sdcard as root directory but it failed.So anyone who can cook kernels please help.Then, when kernel is done we will try to run linux(ubuntu, andstrom, etc.).
Thank u!
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I had installed successfully UBUNTU with VNC but result was not one can use daily so removed in one hour, though good for experiment.
And our OB processor is not enough powerful you can throw Linux. Minimum requirement for UBUNTU is dual core processor.
Search UBUNTU on mobile, or UBUNTU;s official site.

cant we run win 95 ?

pkb_always4u said:
I had installed successfully UBUNTU with VNC but result was not one can use daily so removed in one hour, though good for experiment.
And our OB processor is not enough powerful you can throw Linux. Minimum requirement for UBUNTU is dual core processor.
Search UBUNTU on mobile, or UBUNTU;s official site.
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I don't mean linux on androi, I mean installing linux instead of android and I'd like to use Angstrom and if galaxy spica and gio can run it our OB will do it !And it doesn't requires prosessors clock and a lot of ram because there is no android, it runs along as native os.And i know about ubuntu for mobile, it runs on android and it is like a linux on android.

BeBeLKhaN said:
cant we run win 95 ?
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No.We can run linux because we can take android's linux kernel.Android is very low weight linux.

First we need just enable framebuffer console in kernel, this will help us with starting linux ::

suleymanovemil8 said:
Hi, I would like to run linux instead android, -WOLF- from 4pda.ru have done this with his samsung galaxy spica and I would like to do the same for our OB.Here is origina thread on 4pda.ru but it is all in russan.I tried to make a kernel with frambuffer console and sdcard as root directory but it failed.So anyone who can cook kernels please help.Then, when kernel is done we will try to run linux(ubuntu, andstrom, etc.).
Thank u!
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Android is based on Linux, so what do you expect by running Linux on OB?
I don't have time to do that, so I'll just wait and see your progress then...

What will you choose? Computer with linux dis. or with android?I think with linux.

BeBeLKhaN said:
cant we run win 95 ?
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)) you made my day )) EPIC answer )

WTF
suleymanovemil8 said:
What will you choose? Computer with linux dis. or with android?I think with linux.
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I do using my computer with Ubuntu Linux OS, not Android.
Your quest above are,
suleymanovemil8 said:
... I would like to do the same for our OB.
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So, you are talking about OS on computer, or mobile device?!

redy2006, please help with kernel, i'm gonna get craizy with this kernel...

In the past I had a chinese android device which had 3 options of booting: Android, Linux(I think ubuntu) and Windows CE.
It's really very nice to run linux because it looks like a real pc

ohadz said:
In the past I had a chinese android device which had 3 options of booting: Android, Linux(I think ubuntu) and Windows CE.
It's really very nice to run linux because it looks like a real pc
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Whe off ics will release i will take it's new kernel 3.xx, but i neeeed help with kernel.

redy2006 said:
I do using my computer with Ubuntu Linux OS, not Android.
Your quest above are,
So, you are talking about OS on computer, or mobile device?!
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mobile device, well i think this will make our device more poerfulll, we could use the programs wich are not ported on any android device, and do many more!

This belongs in general.

BeBeLKhaN said:
cant we run win 95 ?
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Yes, we can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWkqMmtSJRE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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wessyh0 said:
Yes, we can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWkqMmtSJRE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I was launched with apk i foger it two weeks ago windows 95.It booted 30 sec.mouse control was very hard and i couldnt access sd files.Than I delete win95 image and application.

Win 95 can run alongside android but if u want to make it your native os u must work alot to port it.And in this thread i don't mean runing any os with android i mean runnning linux dis. instead of android.

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[Q] Htc HD7, Android to Linux (Ubuntu)

I Don't have any knowledge about rooting phones, but I was thinking: If I can put android on my HD7, well is it possible to install Linux (Ubuntu) on android? :laugh:

You can't do that
gamemanx said:
I Don't have any knowledge about rooting phones, but I was thinking: If I can put android on my HD7, well is it possible to install Linux (Ubuntu) on android? :laugh:
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Not only you can't install Android on this phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon13.gif but no phone is powerful enough to run a desktop OS like Ubuntu.

Half true, half FAIL!!
Azraelsrl said:
Not only you can't install Android on this phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon13.gif but no phone is powerful enough to run a desktop OS like Ubuntu.
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No android on ANY WP device...
Windows 8 RT running the ALMIGHTY HD2, ask Cotulla...:highfive:
Why not Ubuntu on the HD2? Yes the HD2 CAN run this...
BTW, I hate that distro, is one of the most segregationist and elitist distro ever known...
Ubuntu is the Apartheid of linux distros... only ubuntu is the "linux for humans" as for the rest of us, I guess, we are Extraterrestrials to them

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faustolg said:
No android on ANY WP device...
Windows 8 RT running the ALMIGHTY HD2, ask Cotulla...:highfive:
Why not Ubuntu on the HD2? Yes the HD2 CAN run this...
BTW, I hate that distro, is one of the most segregationist and elitist distro ever known...
Ubuntu is the Apartheid of linux distros... only ubuntu is the "linux for humans" as for the rest of us, I guess, we are Extraterrestrials to them
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yes you are right

hoping to port Ubuntu touch to 9th gen fire 7

I've never ported a ROM before but would really like to port Ubuntu Touch to my new device.
If anyone can point me in the direction of what to read to begin, I'd greatly appreciate it
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I've seen ubports runs natively on another tablet with the same\similar soc as in my 9th Gen fire 7 tablet.
(BQ Aquarius M10)

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AmznUser444 Dev said:
You cannot port the Ubuntu on your Fire tablet. The MTK SoCs is not porting to x86 operating system.
You must be use the remote desktop such as TeamViewer or Microsoft Remote Desktop and running Ubuntu on VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation on your Windows PC.
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"Ubuntu touch" is an o\s for phones and tablets, on arm architecture.
Obviously x86 (x86_64) software will not run

AmznUser444 Dev said:
You cannot port the Ubuntu on your Fire tablet. The MTK SoCs is not porting to x86 operating system.
You must be use the remote desktop such as TeamViewer or Microsoft Remote Desktop and running Ubuntu on VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation on your Windows PC.
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Read this...
http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction.html
Halium os (It's Ubuntu touch that is based on LOS)
I have tried porting this to my phone before but with no luck(I got a working halium kernel but couldn't get ssh working) . This will probably be easier to Port to a tablet because less going on. Good luck!
Edit: lol, I did not see that you found the ubports guide already.

ANDROID2468 said:
Read this...
http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction.html
Halium os (It's Ubuntu touch that is based on LOS)
I have tried porting this to my phone before but with no luck(I got a working halium kernel but couldn't get ssh working) . This will probably be easier to Port to a tablet because less going on. Good luck!
Edit: lol, I did not see that you found the ubports guide already.
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Thanks for your response. I've got a day-off on Thursday and I'll investigate further then.

ANDROID2468 said:
Read this...
http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction.html
Halium os (It's Ubuntu touch that is based on LOS)
I have tried porting this to my phone before but with no luck(I got a working halium kernel but couldn't get ssh working) . This will probably be easier to Port to a tablet because less going on. Good luck!
Edit: lol, I did not see that you found the ubports guide already.
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@ANDROID2468, It's Ubuntu touch (Hailum OS) we port to ARM architecture

Porting Ubports to Fire 7 2015/2017
AmznUser444 Dev said:
@ANDROID2468, It's Ubuntu touch (Hailum OS) we port to ARM architecture
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If this works, please do it for the Fire 7 2017 too. Android is too much for this tablet. I could help a bit too (my knowledge of making ROMs and building them are low though :fingers-crossed

But now I have become distracted by work.
It is still an idea I have in my head, for when I have more time. I've not given up the dream.
For now, the sources for lineage 14.1 are incredibly "work in progress" anyway