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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.

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[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Amazing to see newpipe on my desktop but wow, over a gigabyte of flatpak trash downloaded. Android app is 12MB for comparison.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Similar apps:

  • Pipeline 8 mb

https://flathub.org/apps/de.schmidhuberj.tubefeeder

  • VacuunTube 114 mv

https://flathub.org/apps/rocks.shy.VacuumTube

  • Parabolic 114 mb

https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter

Looks like the NewPipe flatpak is very unoptimized compared to what others are doing.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah, but are those Android apps? My understanding is that this Flatpak contains not an emulator, but like a lightweight version of android and the dependencies. That's going to take up a lot of extra space.

It's not that Newpipe is that big, it's that flatpak needs to download a 15th copy of the Gnome environment and one more copy of Platform.GL