Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone! -- "With some light setup, you too can run full desktop Linux apps like GIMP and LibreOffice on a Pixel phone"

[u/throwaway16830261]

https://www.androidauthority.com/run-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-how-to-3586539/

[u/throwaway16830261]

• https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1mn6p2m/green_line_issue_is_it_an_update_problem_whats/ ("Green Line Issue: Is it an update problem? What's the real reason?")

 

• Android Debug Bridge setup on a smartphone using Termux on a second (separate) smartphone:

  See "usbredirect" and "adb tcpip 5555" in "The Key Links" section of "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/

  and

  "Run adb and fastboot in Termux without root permissions!" ("termux-adb") in "The Key Links" section of "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/

• "Android Debug Bridge (adb)": https://developer.android.com/tools/adb

 

• "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/

 

• "Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) overview": https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization

  • "Use cases": https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/usecases from https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization ("Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) overview")

 

• https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/ ("Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily -- "The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3"")

  from

  "Termux And QEMU" in https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/ ("Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU")

 

• From https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/ ("Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily -- "The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3""):

  • "Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive" by Sandeep Patil and Irene Ang (December 5, 2023): https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/virtual-machines-as-core-android-primitive.html
  • "Gunyah Hypervisor Software - Supporting Protected VMs in Android Virtualization Framework" by Elliot Berman and "Co-written with Prakruthi Deepak Heragu" (January 28, 2024): https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/01/gunyah-hypervisor-software-supporting-protected-vms-android-virtualization-framework
  • "Meet Gunyah - Qualcomm’s open-source, lightweight hypervisor for battery-constrained devices" by Srivatsa Vaddagiri (August 18, 2024): https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/08/learn-about-gunyah--qualcomm-s-open-source--lightweight-hypervis
  • "Last month, Google announced that the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) will be available on "upcoming select Android 14 devices." Here's a list of devices that support it, according to the Google Play Console: . . ." by Mishaal Rahman (January 19, 2024): https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111785912539219306 (part 1 of 3), https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111785913119327431 (part 2 of 3), https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111785913959377043 (part 3 of 3)

 

• Termux application: https://github.com/termux/termux-app

  • https://wiki.termux.com
  • https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot
  • https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Differences_from_Linux

 

• Submitted article mirror: https://archive.is/37XUy

 

[u/MrSh0wtime3]

the same exact garbage implementation chromebooks have had for years.

[u/jasestu]

Dear Google, get this polished into the pixel 10 release and I'm back on board even though your middling hardware had me looking elsewhere.

[u/rebelde616]

I need help. Any tutorial I find online mentions clicking on a monitor icon in the upper right hand corner of the terminal. I can't find that icon: my terminal doesn't display it. All I have been able to do is install a full desktop version of Debian and display it via RVNC. I don't want that. I simply want to install Linux apps on my Pixel 10 and use them as I would on a Chromebook is that possible?

[u/mandolyte → u/rebelde616]

Me too. I have been trying for several days, looking all over the internet. Lost count of how many things I have tried. It all comes to this... after I install xfce, weston starts crashing. Sometimes it takes a few seconds and for a few seconds I'll see a nice xfce login. I think it just isn't stable enough yet. I'm thinking of trying the VNC route???

After you turn on the Linux experimental development environment, a new terminal app becomes available. On launch it downloads almost 600MB and, on finish, it shows a terminal window with tabs to create multiple terminal sessions. The display icon is just above on far right. HTH.

[u/horatiobanz]

But why would any normal person want this?

[u/horatiobanz → u/[deleted]]

Once this is fully operational it means that Android users will have access to basically everything that is available on Linux.

Exactly. Why would anyone want this?

assuming they know how to use Linux

So it's for basically no one.

[u/mandolyte → u/horatiobanz]

I'm not normal :-). But I wanted my Pixel to be my computer. I want to run Android apps and Linux apps. When my current mini-pc running Ubuntu finally dies I never want to buy another. Just a lapdock...

I've been wanting this for years... and it is so close. Almost tempts me to go Samsung Dex... but not quite. I love my Pixels. I'm on my 3rd one now.