Browsing this year Akademy's events I have spotted something very interesting.

https://conf.kde.org/en/akademy2015/public/events

Long story short, the KDE devs are working on the mechanism to run Android apps on the Linux desktop!

https://conf.kde.org/en/akademy2015/public/events/198

Enter Shashlik, a collection of Android systems and frameworks as minimal as possible, built to run on a standard, modern linux system, using as much of the standard system as possible, and created to be Free/Libre from its inception. Shashlik is built to integrate into your existing system, whether it be a desktop, laptop, tablet or even a plasma based phone or television.

After a bit of research, I've located the project repository on Github:

https://github.com/shashlik

The main dev, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen is currently employed by Blue Systems. Nothing shocking, considering the fact that Blue Systems supports many KDE-related projects. Sadly, not much else is out there until the 26th of July, which is the Akademy presentation date and also the time of the first official release:

While it is, as with such things, never completed, this presentation marks the first public release that you can grab yourself and play with, and you will see applications running through Shashlik on an entirely normal Plasma desktop.

The whole project is extremely interesting, as right now there are no open-source alternatives, excluding ARChon Runtime for Chrome, which requires Google Chrome.

#KDE   #Plasma   #Plasma   #Android #Shashlik