Can Linux apps be run in Android

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Android is based on Linux  can native Linux applications be run on Android

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Yes  they can   If you do not have a rooted phone tablet  then you could download c4droid here to compile your apps   Then  you could download Kevin Boone s KBOX here to run the program

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Not directly  no  Android s C runtime library  bionic  is not binary compatible with the GNU libc  which most Linux distributions use   You can always try to recompile your binaries for Android and pray

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Short answer  no  Long answer  you can run Linux application if you install some software   To avoid rooting your device  you can try the GnuRoot and XSDL combo to get a minimal chrooted environment   Actually  it use proot to enable a rootless chrooted jail   or get the Debian Noroot application  which combine the former two application in a single virtual machine environment  Both can be fetch from Google Play   However  there is a few drawbacks  first  the X11 Server bundled by XSDL and DNR is a compatibility layer wrapped around a Android port of SDL library and SurfaceFlinger  This means  hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics are not avaliable  and even the sound support requires some hacks  So  the author choose a simple Desktop Environment  XFCE4 suitable to low memmory and no 3D support  The second problem is the incompatibility from the DNR Virtual Machine of direct hardware acess  since it requires real root privileges  So you can t burn DVD  print using USB cables     even the author s projects may promise a workaround in a future  Finally  this solution enables to install user-space programs like LibreOffice  Gimp  Samba     not kernel-space modules   Even with this limitations  the DNR is a very powerfull program

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yes i have done that on several rooted machines  i set a debian linux on a sdcard by dd   i copy this script http   jeanmichel gens free fr etc install on  system bin  i have not yet succeed to run a Xserver but i can use xwindows binaries through the android Xserver application   i can run update my debian with apt-get upgrade   run an apache server with PHP   run a ssh server  and all binaries on a terminal including user management i have also a problem with semaphores handling  please contact me if you have any trouble

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yes you can  -     the simplest way is using this - http   www androidfanatic com community-forums html func view amp catid 9 amp id 2248  The old link is dead it was for a Debian install script  There is an app for that in the android market but you will need root

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You can get an ARM cross compiler that runs on Linux here  You can also download the Android NDK and compile some command line apps  I do not have any personal experience with using C   with either solution  but I have compiled a few simple things with both   It is my understanding that the NDK is not a full C   compiler as there have been complaints that it will not compile some common C   code   Note that since I am a new user  I cannot post the NDK link

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Hell  of course yes  with several limitations   Android is a kinda special Linux distribution  with no usual suff like X11  and you can t install Apache2 with apt-get  But if you have ARM cross-compiler  you can copy your ELF files to the device  and run it from a terminal app or if you have installed some SSHD app  you can even use SSH from your desktop notebook to access the Android device   To copy and launch a native Linux executable  you have not root your device  That s the point  where I am  I ve compiled my own tiny webserver to Android  and also for webOS   it runs  hallelujah   There comes the issues  which I can t answer    My tiny webserver use only stdlib and pthreads  I have no idea how to use the  native Linux  libraries comes with Android  there are useful ones  altough  I can live without them  Now I can launch my app from a terminal app by hand  But I don t know  what s the best way of deploying such native apps to Android  I think I should be write a small Android app  which launches the server and not letting automatically stopped by the system  say  as like music players never killed   Also  if its a service  it should somehow started on boot  I m not familiar with Android

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android only use linux kernel  that means the GNU tool chain like gcc as are not implemented in android  so if you want run a linux app in android  you need recompile it with google s tool chain  NDK

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You can install chrooted linux distribution alongside android bacause android is based on linux kernel  If your phone is not rooted  you may use fakeroot  easiest way is to use Debinan nonroot app  even with GUI  with android X-server app or via VNC   If you have a rooted phone  you can install almost fully functional distribution    I think the best performance and the least limitations you can achieve with Gentoo because all software compiles to your native arm architecture and it is the most flexible  but not the easiest  You may be interested in this post about installing Gentoo on android

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Yes you can  I have installed a complete Debian distribution in a chroot-jail enviroment using debootstrap   You need a rooted device  I am now running ssh  apache  mysql  php and even a samba server under android on my htc-desire  with no problems  It is possible to run x applications using a remote x server via ssh  It even runs openoffice org and firefox  You can use this  http   code google com p android-xserver  to run X-application on localhost  but my HTC-desire has a to small screen to be productive  -  But it might be usefull on a Eee Pad Transformer or something like that

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Yes they can if they re compiled under an arm linux first or using a cross compiler  Debian arm versatile works  there s also arm-eabi for compiling under x86 linux to arm linux

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In general  no   Android apps generally run in a sandboxed Java-like virtual machine  so have to be written in Java or some language that compiles to virtual-machine bytecode that use the Android API   However  the virtual machine does run on top of the underlying Linux OS  and there are ways to call native code   See https   developer android com tools sdk ndk index html  So  while it is technically possible to run native Linux programs  as there is a Linux kernel running beneath everything  most users would not be able to install such applications or use them   If you have root access or are building your own firmware  then you can do whatever you want

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I think this article can provide a solution   Linux Today - Compile  Install and Run Linux apps on Android Hope it helps

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Android does not run X Windows  nor does it have many of the standard GNU libraries   So  since most native linux applications require one or both of these  most will not run   In addition  even Java programs can be limited  because the version of Java that Android applications are written in is a subset of the standard Java library

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