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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.

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  • Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
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  • Ubuntu Touch
  • Sailfish
  • FuriOS
  • Postmarket OS
  • Mobian
  • Pure OS
  • Plasma Mobile
  • LuneOS
  • Nemomobile
  • Droidian
  • Mobile NixOS
  • ExpidusOS
  • Maemo Leste
  • Manjaro Arm
  • Tizen
  • WebOS

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  • Fairphone 5
  • Volla Phone
  • PinePhone
  • FLX1
  • Librem 5

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Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com)
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[–] tal@olio.cafe 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

When I tried making the “hello world” apk I was astonished to see how hard it is compared to Linux dev.

I mean, to be fair, if you're doing the APK, you're also doing the packaging. If you compare that to building and packaging for all the Linux distros out there, especially considering all the different packaging systems, doing up a single APK is probably a lot easier.