Comment on Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 months agoI mean, I’m just going with the article here. React is their main system for it, and it’s a framework for JavaScript, which makes it a web app. Also, they’re specifically leaving android by making their own Linux flavor. That means they lose the benefit of apps written for android, in the same way you can’t just install an android app on Ubuntu. Heck of a lot easier to modify a Linux app to run on another flavor of Linux than it would be to convert to windows, but you still have to modify it.
guy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s unlikely you would be making a Linux app. It’s likely that while it is technically Linux under the hood, the OS will be entirely abstracted away, interfaced by an SDK through a layer running on top that controls and sandboxes these web apps.
So if you don’t already have a web app, then you’ve got a lot of work to do.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure, yeah, but that’s still what they’re doing. Native android apps aren’t React, so since they’re primarily doing react apps, they’re losing android native apps. I’ve never used React Native myself, but it seems like exactly what you’re saying, and isn’t what android apps are made with.
Amazon is asking app devs to do that work, and so I have to assume that since React is the default app, that they’ll also expose more OS-level things and let the web app actually act like a normal app.
It is just a hope that they do the thing that seems like common sense, but I hope it nonetheless, because they definitely won’t be supporting android apps with it.