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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/45207780

TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile

I was searching for YouTube clients on my Plasma Bigscreen 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.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Not really, no.
    If the TV is running Android you could do some trickery to (maybe) disable the bloat apps, but actually flash a new OS? No.

    Developing a third party OS for a closed device like this is super hard, and there’s so many millions of TV models, the developers with the skill to do it end up focusing their time on other devices instead.
    I’d recommend looking into a TV box appliance of some sort.