Developers are working to build a simulated Android environment that would allow users to run any kind of Android apps in a Linux OS. This work is still in its infancy, but it's happening and it will be presented at the KDE Akademy 2015 event.

If you really think about it, Android is using a Linux kernel, so the environment shouldn't be too far away removed from a regular Linux OS. In theory, making Android apps to run on Linux systems should not be an impossible task, but no one has tried to achieve it until now. A project that would solve this issue has been started by KDE developers, and it has a good chance of happening.

Akademy 2015 is an event scheduled to take place in Coruña, Spain, 25-31 in July. This is an annual KDE community, so a lot of very famous people are going to attend and project presented there are usually quite important. It's not clear whether this project will be KDE-centric, but it doesn't really matter. If Android apps are made to work on Linux, with a minimal framework that doesn't make Google angry, it will run on anything, not just KDE-powered distros.

Google might not agree

It's not clear how developers will get around all the problems that come with such a difficult task, especially when it comes to licenses and all the other corporate stuff that Linux users detest, but it's still worth a try.

"Enter Shashlik, a collection of Android systems and frameworks as minimal as possible, built to run on a standard, modern Linux system, using as much of the standard system as possible, and created to be Free/Libre from its inception. Shashlik is built to integrate into your existing system, whether it be a desktop, laptop, tablet or even a plasma based phone or television," reads an entry for a presentation that will be made at KDE Akademy 2015.

A Shashlik entry is already available in Github if anyone is curious enough.