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gf000 • today at 1:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You can absolutely run arbitrary binaries. The binary format for Android is an APK, but if you really meant a random arm binary you can run that as well just fine, android even natively has a terminal now.

And what do you mean "graphics primitives"? You have an abstraction layer, the same as you do on Linux. Like you ain't writing directly against a particular video card either , unless you write a kernel driver.


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ta8903 • today at 2:47 PM

An APK is an installer, not a binary. You have to be an "app" to do anything in Android. Which includes writing to the framebuffer. I don't know enough about Android so I'd love to be proven wrong. Give me an `xclock` equivalent that I can just run.

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