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Posted by flocked 5 hours ago

Android apps running native on macOS(github.com)
203 points | 82 commentspage 2
dmonterocrespo 2 hours ago|
Great project...it would be awesome to be able to run APK on the iPhone
sirjaz 4 hours ago||
This is awesome, now this needs to work on Windows
Tarball10 4 hours ago||
Windows had something like this (Windows Subsystem for Android) which worked really well until Microsoft went and killed it.
pndy 1 hour ago|||
Yeah, Microsoft tried 'both ways' to expand their quite small Windows Phone applications catalogue. And while Project Astoria [1] aimed at bringing Android apps, Project Islandwood was about easing porting of iOS applications [2]. Then MS decided that Windows Phone platform has no future.

[1] - https://www.windowslatest.com/2016/02/26/project-astoria-por...

[2] - https://www.windowslatest.com/2016/02/09/project-islandwood-...

forgotpwd16 4 hours ago|||
WSA was (or is, since still works unofficially) running Android in VM underneath.
majorchord 3 hours ago||
BlueStacks has worked really well for me.
maxloh 2 hours ago|||
It is based on VM, so it is a lot slower.

You can't even run Instagram on a low-end laptop.

inknight 3 hours ago|||
isn't BlueStacks full of chinese ads nowadays?
dawnerd 2 hours ago|||
Unfortunately. But there really isn't anything out there as reliable as it.
majorchord 2 hours ago|||
I wouldn't know, I block all Chinese IPs at my router.
tuomas2 3 hours ago||
This is very cool! Next IOS.apk? ;)
forgotpwd16 3 hours ago||
macOS includes[0] a built-in iOS compatibility subsystem. PlayCover allows utilizing it for running arbitrary iOS apps.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/runn...

wffurr 2 hours ago||
And yet somehow Microsoft / Mojang don't see fit to enable Minecraft Bedrock for iPads on Macs. Pretty frustrating for cross-platform play. It's pretty funny that Bluestacks / Mac.apk work just fine for playing the Android Bedrock version on a Mac when the iOS app is right there.
VCFundedGenYer 3 hours ago||
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tamimio 2 hours ago||
Slightly off topic, what skill/diagram tool did you use to make the diagrams?
LoganDark 4 hours ago||
Couple issues with this right off the bat:

- Seemingly relies on the Java virtual machine for simulation -- no support for native ARM binaries?

- Stores data inside the .app

yincrash 3 hours ago||
Looks like it will run native ARM just fine according to the readme?
LoganDark 2 hours ago||
I saw a hint of machine code recompilation in the libraries list (like capstone), but couldn't find enough to verify if recompilation means more than just extracting the dalvik stuff and reformatting it to run on a normal JVM
leopoldcongo 2 hours ago|||
you didnt read the page did you.
LoganDark 1 hour ago||
I read the page, but didn't clone the repository locally to run an AI agent over it.
iAMkenough 4 hours ago||
No app sandboxing? User files and settings stored in the /Applications/ folder, rather than the User’s home folder?
VCFundedGenYer 3 hours ago||
Naming it Mac.apk is a poor choice. So it's Mac.apk.app?

Overall this repo has a lot of tells of a low quality LLM generated app. Many issues with data structuring, naming etc.

flocked 5 hours ago||
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dang 3 hours ago|
This looks like a great submission! But I wanted to let you know that some of your recent comments have been killed by our software because they've been classified as genai text, which is not allowed on HN itself (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079).

(Of course it's fine to use AI tools! We use them heavily ourselves. Just please don't use them to generate or edit text to be read by fellow humans on Hacker News itself.)

It's impossible to know for sure what was LLM generated or edited, but we have to rely on imperfect classifiers or else the site would be completely flooded by genai text, which is not what the community here wants to read, nor in the intended spirit of HN.

ls-a 3 hours ago|
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