Ubuntu snap packages will work on Android

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After the abandonment of Ubuntu Phone and Unity, Canonical and Ubuntu have focused on Server technologies and everything related to Ubuntu Core, the distribution for the IoT. In particular, the snap packages that are increasingly present in the Gnu / Linux world. The latest technology update has told us that these packages will work on Android and its devices.

Yes effectively, Ubuntu continues to bet on mobile, but this time in a different way. Thus, in a short period of time, applications written in snap format can be installed either on Ubuntu or on Android.

Snapd 2.7 update now allows snap apps to be started on Android boot, significant fact because they are starting a development that will culminate in the installation and full operation of packages of this type on Android devices, whatever their version.

This version of the package manager has also included interesting new features in the format such as updating various commands and changing them. Thus, to search for a package from the list, we will no longer use the "search" variable but instead use the "find" variable. The «List» variable we will now use to see the notes of each installed application.

When creating this type of format, that is, during the creation process, changes have been added. Many of them are related to the nomenclature of the application, such nomenclature must be under a name written in capital letters; such a title will function as a supracategory that encompasses all the files and code of the snap package.

Canonical seeks the creation of a new package that is used by everyone and if it finally reaches Android, there is no doubt that it will be, since the Google platform has more and more followers and more devices, being able to even install packages in clocks, something unthinkable 30 years ago. However Will Google do something to slow it down or encourage it? What do you think?


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  1.   Tanausu Rodriguez Garcia said

    that sounds interesting. I have switched to ubuntu for two years and since then I have not wanted to go back to windows but on my mobile I use android with this update I will be able to use snap packages on my mobile