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We need to set the ground work now before google closes up android (media.piefed.social)

submitted 10 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure FLX1 counts as a full 100% Linux phone. It uses the android driver stack in order to then boot to Linux. But I guess this might get them stuck with old insecure drivers? Not sure this is the best long term approach.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was basically Debian with Waydroid preinstalled.

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. the FLX1 uses a project called Hallium, which as I understand it, basically runs an Android container and the original Android kernel to interface with the hardware

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Weird. I checked the website & forum again, and what I can see still says it's a Debian fork that uses Waydroid. Where did you read that it uses Hallium? Not that it's important, but I've been planning to get one, so I want to be sure I know what I'm getting.

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got it from https://blog.luigi311.com/furilabs-flx1/. Furi labs specifically links to this article on their website, so I would assume it's factually correct.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see where it says the phone is a Halium-based device, but then under Android support, it says they use their own Waydroid fork. So, I guess those aren't mutually exclusive. Good to know, thanks.

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Waydroid is just an application and will run on normal amd64 and arm64 linux devices just fine. Having it setup from the factory is just a nice quality of life feature.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not really clear on what you were disagreeing with, then.