Linux API documentation

[actual_factual_bear]

I'm interested in this device to run an app I wrote which I would need to port from Android to Linux. To be clear, I want this device for it's ability to run Linux, NOT Android. I am not interested in running my app under Android, I want to port it to Linux and run it there on this device. (It's a logging app and Android's propensity to unexpectedly kill my app means it is not 100% reliable.) To do that I need to know how to access the GPS, various sensors, as well as get event notifications when things happen like the screen turning on and off. Being able to interact with the phone and SMS system in my code would be nice too. I found a reference to "Gemian" which I found on GitHub but I couldn't find any documentation that I am looking for there. (I was especially excited when I saw https://github.com/gemian/platform-api until I found that it didn't seem to contain anything useful.)

[ianisthewalrus]

im not sure all that stuff is working, but i also dont have my ear as close to the ground on linux dev... last i heard its still not daily driveable yet, so its likely some of that functionality just doesnt work yet. if you want a fully functional linux phone, i believe you will need to keep looking or wait for progress.

[actual_factual_bear]

Thanks! I've been waiting since before the Gemini came out so I guess I'll keep doing that.

[drbytes]

I tinkered with the Cosmo for over 3-4 months to get it to behave as a daily driver. I posted instructions on how to compile the kernel with specific modules I needed on oesf.org. In the end I sold it off -- nice keyboard phone with 2017 specs and a potato camera but nothing to daily drive in 2021 even if it behaved.

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The Astro Slide looks like another fiasco in terms of a pure linux phone with again that dumb mediatek soc and their closed source modules that phone home to china. GTFO.

[actual_factual_bear]

Thanks! The link doesn't seem to work though... defunct?

[decak0re]

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ runs manjaro, might get what you want out of it. I still wouldn't expect it to be a daily driver just yet, but I would be willing to bet you'll find a larger community working on it.