>"The biggest upside is that Alpine is small. The base installation is about 5 MB! Thanks to that, our development/installation tool pmbootstrap is able to abstract everything in chroots and therefore keep the development environment consistent, no matter which Linux distribution your host runs on."
[...]
>"Will Android apps be supported?
We support Android apps through Waydroid! However, it is highly recommended to use native Linux applications, as there are some downsides to Android apps:
Freedom issues — most are proprietary, or only work together with a proprietary network. Some even track you. See F-Droid for FOSS programs that respect your freedom.
Heavy resource usage: You need to run an Android environment inside of postmarketOS. So it uses not only more RAM and storage, but also more CPU and in turn eats more of your battery life compared to native Linux applications.
As such, we recommend at least trying to find a native Linux alternative to your favourite [Android] application, or ask yourself if you really need it."
Nice!
PostmarketOS is definitely in the running as a potential candidate to become my next mobile phone OS...
[...]
>"Will Android apps be supported?
We support Android apps through Waydroid! However, it is highly recommended to use native Linux applications, as there are some downsides to Android apps:
Freedom issues — most are proprietary, or only work together with a proprietary network. Some even track you. See F-Droid for FOSS programs that respect your freedom.
Heavy resource usage: You need to run an Android environment inside of postmarketOS. So it uses not only more RAM and storage, but also more CPU and in turn eats more of your battery life compared to native Linux applications.
As such, we recommend at least trying to find a native Linux alternative to your favourite [Android] application, or ask yourself if you really need it."
Nice!
PostmarketOS is definitely in the running as a potential candidate to become my next mobile phone OS...
Related:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Waydroid
https://f-droid.org/