- cross-posted to:
- linuxphones@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- linuxphones@lemmy.ca
I was searching for YouTube clients on my KDE Plasma Bigscreen GNU/Linux TV box, and found NewPipe, a popular Android YouTube frontend. Turns out this tool is how they moved it over.
Great solution alongside projects like Waydroid, as you can post individual apps to Flathub or other Linux storefronts, rather than needing to install a whole ROM to get your Android apps to appear in your Linux app tray.
It doesn’t work like Wine, but I suppose the goal one day is to be able to click .APK files to install like you can with .EXE files with Wine. Currently developers need to integrate it for their (or their favourite open source) apps to install on Linux.
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You can just open an apk file with this tool; apps don’t need to be integrated with it. It’s just that the implementation is far from complete and most apps will not work (correctly) right now.
Oh good to know! If you’ve tried it with any specific apps this way, would love to hear which ones work well and in what ways.
There are some wiki pages about that, feel free to extend them if you’re missing anything:
Just to point out a potential misunderstanding: NewPipe devs did not use ATL to move it over, the developers of ATL chose NewPipe as the first app and extend the tool around getting more features of NewPipe to work
I enjoy learning about this topic - I’m kinda tired of iOS/android os.
This is the way.
I’ve been following this since the initial Newpipe Linux flatpak release. I find it more exciting than Waydroid even though Waydroid is way more functional today
There’s some good potential here for sure. I use a project called Sober to run Roblox on my Linux PC, which runs the Android version. It works incredibly well.
Oh dang this might be just what i need !
How did you get Plasma Bigscreen? Last time I checked it said that it was “still in development” and the website didn’t provide any builds.
If you run something like Debian Bookworm, or based on it, you can apt install plasma-bigscreen to run the older version. New version you likely need to compile depending on your distro
what about waydroid? I’m thinking of installing chimera linux with phosh as a de, and for the apps I was thinking mostly linux programs and maybe some android apps with waydroid, but I’ll also try this!
