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Halium
DeveloperHalium Project
Working stateCurrent[1]
Source modelOpen-source
Initial release24 April 2017; 6 years ago (2017-04-24)
Repository
PlatformsARM64, x86, armhf
Official websitehalium.org

Halium is a collaborative project to unify the Hardware Abstraction Layer for projects which run Linux on mobile devices with pre-installed Android. The project aims to standardize the middleware software used by various projects to talk with android daemons and make use of hardware on installed devices.[2][3][4] It is distributed as free and open-source software under a mix of software licenses.

History

The project was announced in 2017 and tried to pool developers from Ubuntu Touch (UBports), Sailfish OS community developers, the LuneOS project, KDE Plasma Mobile contributors, and among other developers to put an end to the fragmentation seen in their respective projects and achieve new goals jointly.[5]

Features

The project has a planning with an overall idea which stack includes the following:

See also

References

  1. ^ Halium Project Planning
  2. ^ Serrafero, Mario Tomás (2017-04-18). "Halium is an Open Source Project Working Towards a Common Base for Non-Android Mobile Operating Systems". XDA Developers. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  3. ^ "Linux on Android smartphones: Project Halium wants your handset to run Ubuntu, Sailfish". ZDNET. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  4. ^ Verma, Adarsh (February 14, 2018). "How To Install KDE Plasma Mobile On Your Android Smartphone?". Fossbytes. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  5. ^ "Halium is in the air!". halium.org. Retrieved 2024-01-30.