Jun 18, 2024 16:00:00

Lindroid, a native, hardware-accelerated Linux operating system on Android, is in development

Engineer

Erfan Abdi is developing a project called Lindroid , which aims to run Linux apps on Android devices.

So finally today I can talk about this, most of you already know but I'll explain in thread🧵
Project: Lindroid✨✨ https://t.co/uDiKbmMz9l pic.twitter.com/5TAnyqIfg6

— Erfan Abdi ➐ (@Khode_Erfan) June 16, 2024

Abdi's project, Lindroid, is a project to run fully hardware accelerated Linux as an app on Android. Abdi also said, 'Linux on Android runs in a container and has access to real native hardware.'

Introducing a new way to use Linux on android devices
Kinda looks like a reverse waydroid, but you can have full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app,
Linux is running inside the container and can access the real native hardware💥
Let's see some development pictures:

— Erfan Abdi ➐ (@Khode_Erfan) June 16, 2024

Below is an example of Lindroid actually launching. What's unique about it is that a PC-like window and app launcher called ' Kickoff ' appear on the small screen of a smartphone.

Lindroid's default and recommended window manager is

KWin , but it has experimental support for other X Window System (X11) compliant window managers.

Lindroid default and recommended compositor is kwin but also supports x11 display, although it's very experimental🗿 pic.twitter.com/n71MD48QsH

— Erfan Abdi ➐ (@Khode_Erfan) June 16, 2024

You can also use Lindroid to run Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu touch , Droidian , and Plasma Mobile .

Lindroid can run known Linux mobiles such as Ubuntu touch(lomiri), droidian(phosh) and even plasma mobile🤩 pic.twitter.com/Q5wlUhPbRu

— Erfan Abdi ➐ (@Khode_Erfan) June 16, 2024

In addition, when connected to a Linux computer, it supports multi-display and multi-input, and can also run Android desktop mode .

Lindroid supports multi display and multi input😨
It's even compatible with Android desktop mode pic.twitter.com/X8Kj6IW3Qo

— Erfan Abdi ➐ (@Khode_Erfan) June 16, 2024

At the time of writing, Lindroid only supports the Android-based LibreMobileOS .

Lindroid will be officially available in @LibreMobileOS under the project ulumo as soon as possible for all the supported devices🫡

— Erfan Abdi ➐ (@Khode_Erfan) June 16, 2024

'My personal goal is to make Linux useful and easy to use for everyone. I hope to see the Linux mobile community develop even more in the future,' said Abdi.

My personal goal is to make Linux convenient for everyone and hope to see more love, contribution and devs in the Linux mobile community in the future🙏🙏

— Erfan Abdi ➐ (@Khode_Erfan) June 16, 2024

Abdi developed Lindroid as open source, and the source code can be viewed at the following link.

Linux-on-droid · GitHub
https://github.com/linux-on-droid/