Android-Support by License for Community-Ports?

Has been on discussion last time at 2022/06/09 here: #sailfishos-meeting log

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Complete Answer:

We’ve looked at the possibility of stand-alone Android AppSupport for third party ports internally on several occasions over the last few years. At each point, it was decided that the challenge of providing a product of sufficient quality and with adequate support would be too great compared to our current approach of offering the best possible experience on top of officially supported and developed adaptations. It’s worth noting that Android AppSupport for community ports is more than just providing the relevant packages. We’d also need processes for verifying that everything works, ensuring the right apps are made available in the Store, ensuring that ports are kept up-to-date and also implementing technical changes to the repository backend. Having said all that, we are still actively investigating the possibility right now once again. The plans aren’t what might be called “advanced”, however, so if we were to do this, it wouldn’t be in the immediate future.

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