Flatpak apps on an unrooted Android phone, no user namespaces: how Tessera does it

Flatpak needs bubblewrap, bubblewrap needs user namespaces, and Android kernels ship without them. So flatpak run can't work on a phone, root or not. In Tessera (GPL-3.0, an Android app that runs Linux desktop apps as native Android windows), flatpak still downloads, but Tessera builds each app's root itself: - the runtime at /usr and the app at... Weiterlesen: Flatpak apps on an unrooted Android phone, no user namespaces: how Te…