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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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.