Which Android version Xperia X got with 2.1.4 / Lapuanjoki? [answered]

For more precision :

• Android hardware adaptation : the android kernel and blobs which boots the phone and on which libhybris runs. Currently, in Sailfish X's case that's Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, because that's the Sony firmware from which the binaries and the 3.10.84 kernel are obtained (the "Loire" file that you used to need to download from Sony's website).
• At some point of the future, that one might change once Jolla moves to the latest kernel 4.4 that is currently provided by Sony for running Android 7 Nougat.
• Android Runtime is the layer provided (currently by Alien Dalvik) to applications to run on it. It's currently exposing an Android 4.4 Kitkat API.
• According to Jolla, for Sailfish 3 they plan to upgrade the runtime, so depending on what Myriad provides to them, this might change.

But Jolla announced updating it in some blog post ._.

Version 4.4.4

@pisarz1958 Probably you mean the release notes mentioned an upgrade of Alien Dalvik from 1.0.82-1 to 1.0.85-1.

@ossi1967: actually just @jovirkku's answer: https://together.jolla.com/question/179522/which-android-version-xperia-x-got-with-214-lapuanjoki/?answer=179549#post-id-179549

The logic behind hoping update for newer android versions :

• Sailfish OS is nice OS and, including 3rd party apps from openrepos, covers 95% of daily needs.
• ... then there's this 1 or 2 apps which don't have Sailfish OS equivalent that you absolutely need and don't wan't to lug an extra android device around just to run them.
• the original authors are never going to port it to Sailfish OS because for them it's a too small market and not worth the effort.
• you're happy that Jolla has Myriad's alien-davlik engine so you can fill the last 5% missing gap.
• then one day, the app manufacturer decide to be a dick and the next upgrade only works with 5 Lollipop or more recent
• You live in fear of when older non-updated clients are going to get kicked out of the app server.

So yeah, getting more Sailfish OS native apps is important, but our time isn't infinite (we still have to earn money to eat, we can't spend eternity trying to reverse enginee and re-implement every last app)

Sailfish OS is still a small player in the field. The dominant eco-systems are Android and iOS - that's not something that is going to change easily. Most companies won't spend resources developing yet another app for a small market.

Alien-Dalvik plays the same cirtical role to enable accessing missing apps, that Wine plays on desktop Linux installations. (Except that Wine is having a harder time due to Windows being completely closed source with gazillion of badly documented hidden features).

Myriad stopped working on Alien Dalvik apparently as they removed references to it from their website.

It's still on their website:

http://www.myriadgroup.com/en/products/device-solutions/mobile-software/alien-dalvik/

Seems the renamed(?) it to Alien Vue to fit it more into the media device market. As they don't mention any new Android version I guess the product is in maintenance state. :(

Ah ok that sounds interesting

Anbox sounds really interesting. I wonder how much work it would take to get working. it would be great to fibally have fine-grained permissions and root in the Sailfish Android layer.

with containers and who knows what not.

But now I think its working because I was downloading the apps and without any disturbance, I get that app and it was not saying your device is not compatible. I was happy. well, you can also go to this link https://www.ticketgateway.com/profile/user_profile_visit/Windows-7-Customer-Support if you are facing the problem related to Microsoft support services.