Now Running Android Apps on Linux May Soon Become a Reality

The ability to run Android Apps on Linux is only one step away from reality thanks to a project named SPURV. It is a new project by an open source software development and integration company named Collabora.

SPRUV is capable of running a full instance of Android in a container, thus makes it easy for a mobile OS to directly access system hardware and run apps natively on a Linux system.

The process essentially runs two operating systems on a machine at the same time and can be quite resource intensive. In a nutshell, SPRUV is a containerized version of Android, hence it is easy for the Android apps to run like native apps that tap into the machine’s audio, touchscreen, display, graphics processor, and more. The apps themselves run in separate windows, similar to other software, so they should feel right at home.

There are some cautions as Collabora right now has no plans to offer SPURV as a package available in any distro’s repository. This means only one thing, that is for the interested users to build the software from scratch, which can be tiresome. SPURV runs a full instance of Android. This means SPURV will be running two operating systems at a time: Linux and Android. Although it may be helpful in terms of privacy, security, and hardware access, it can be very overloading on a system.