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Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:32:59 +0000

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Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:36:20 +0000

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By: c.la

c.la — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:29:52 +0000

I have skype v. 5.0.429.49739 taken from yandex and works fine, it crashed a few times because of low jolla ram available

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:17:53 +0000

@paspie +1

By: paspie

paspie — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:45:37 +0000

Skype is already available on Linux desktops, so a Sailfish port shouldn’t be that much trouble.

By: Istvan Prosinger

Istvan Prosinger — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:31:55 +0000

I just tested this throughly.
The connection was video call Jolla->PC and Jolla->S4 (although I don’t think it really matters what is on the other side).
It DOES work. It is clutchy and hanged the application twice (fixed by restarting Skype – no need to restart the phone ofc). Best so far.
Still as you already know, I don’t “support” this, for as the other colleague said – it might slow down the development of native apps;
I do think that Jolla _lacks basic funcionality_ – sip, possibbly Skype and usable maps integration…oh and stable/usable wifi connectivity And this is bad to such a level that it’s unusable for me (I’m a system engineer – can’t affor to be unavaliable when I’m in roaming because of some unstable android emulation).
After that, I really don’t mind playing some game on AlienDalvik, restarting it all the time, whatever.
Basic functionality on Sailfish should be the an absolute prio for Jolla.

Back to the subject – thanks for the info, this is really a model that wors closest to acceptable.

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By: C C

C C — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:25:10 +0000

Don’t agree about resource intensiveness. Jolla browser, aside from being featureless and having the worst UI I’ve ever seen also eats battery way faster than FF or Opera for Android (on Sailfish) do, whilst being much faster. In theory, what you say may be true, in practice a lot of Sailfish apps are horribly optimised / coded, and the Browser is a perfect example of that. Android support is absolutely necessary at this juncture.

By: Claude-Eric Desguin

Claude-Eric Desguin — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:26:42 +0000

I agree. However, the main risk is to never see the native ecosystem growing because Jolla and their early adopters only care for Android and its plenty of games and gadgets. Perhaps Alien Dalvik’s layer is too much efficient. I would prefer to see it as an incentive to help launching Jolla in its early age. After all if we have only Android apps, we don’t need Sailfish OS and we don’t need a Jolla device. Sailfish must be attractive for developers, too, with a real market allowing them to sell software with professional grade. Then professional buyers would come, for hardware and software. That’s what I call an ecosystem.
The point is this: the currently available range of apps doesn’t make Jolla really ‘unlike’…

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 18:07:48 +0000

I agree 100%. Every Sailfish native app holds 1000 times more interest to me for a number of reasons but mainly because Android apps are resource heavy by nature and therefore not optimised for Sailfish. Of course native integration with the UI is also so very important and something Android apps largely do not offer.

But as a stop-gap, and certainly for some big name games/other apps missing from the native catalogue, which entice users to a platform, Alien Dalvik offers a truly excellent android experience which surpasses the competition eg. Blackberry and without it we would see a much lower adoption rate for Jolla/Sailfish based handsets. This factor alone would cause any chance of native development to cease almost entirely.