On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Jim Ancona wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Al Johnson > > <openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > On Monday 12 October 2009, Levy wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 20:34, Aditya Gandhi <aditya...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > That is so sad to hear google android without maps, gmail, etc... is > >> > there anyway to get those binaries and have them run on freerunner?? > >> > >> One time I made a test with Gmail.apk that I got from a G1 and did not > >> work! ! :-( > > > > No surprise there. The G1 has a later family of ARM cpu with instructions > > the FR doesn't support. > > No, that's not the reason. With the exception of those built with the > new native development kit, apk's (the Android application packaging > format) run in the Dalvik VM and are processor independent. AFAIK, the > issue with is only missing APIs. Of course, that doesn't make Gmail > run any better, but it does mean that apps that are developed using > the public APIs and don't use the NDK should run across Android > platforms regardless of the underlying processor. And in fact, almost > all of the (non-Google) apps I've tried seem to run on my Freerunner.
Should have known. That's what happens when I post past my bedtime ;-) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community