Some of the new mobile operating systems which may emerge to challenge Android will actually rely heavily on Google’s platform to get off the ground, in order to provide users with an applications base from day one. This could provide a new hunting ground for the always-disruptive Alien Dalvik offering from Myriad, which enables users to access Android applications from other Linux-based OSs.
Non-Android platforms may be excluded from the Google Play store, and therefore the full array of its 900,000 apps, but they can tap into alternative Android markets ‘ Jolla is using one from Russia’s Yandex. It will also integrate the Alien Dalvik software into Sailfish OS, enabling users to run Android apps unmodified alongside native Jolla offerings.
BlackBerry hoped to pull that trick off for BB10 and so will other emerging platforms, often geared heavily to modern HTML5-based web services, but not brave enough to ignore the huge base of native Android apps entirely. This could be a big chance for Myriad, which originally developed Alien Dalvik for MeeGo, the Nokia/Intel OS which is the basis of Sailfish, as well as an element of Samsung-backed Tizen. The Myriad runtime allows Android apps to run on a variety of OSs and devices, including ‘ via the Alien Vue implementation ‘ a TV. The tool also offers a white label app store.
Stephen Dunford, CEO of Myriad Group, commented: ‘Myriad’s Alien Dalvik runtime will enable Jolla smartphone users to access hundreds of thousands of apps, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Skype, Viber and WeChat, as well as a variety of games, productivity apps and music apps. We are pleased to be able to work closely with Jolla, and in doing so, reinforce our position as a leading global provider of Android runtime software.’