Android Application Packaging

I modified/extended the original wiki spec based on UDS discussion, and here is a dump of my UDS notes:

Packaging issues for Android on Ubuntu
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packaging issues:
 packaging of runtime
 packaging of applications
 rootfs issue for each user

runtime:
 licensing apache2
 requires own jre/classlibs
 kernel support required
 other components
 will use std glibc?

apps:
 packaging format different
 how do we get android apps?
 what about store?
 to package natively as deb, backend would have to have android build
  env also
 there are default apps with android...
 has basic dependencies for who can provide X svc...
 convert/wrap packaged android (bin) apps into debs so we can handle
  in existing apt-get backend infrastructure?

other issues:
 we have system based app env vs proposed per user rootfs
 netbook has no "users", hence per user rootfs not relevant
 maybe apps can be stored/shared from one place, data per user dir
 google emulator environment...lets not do anything that breaks it
 first step android devkit/emulator support?

alternate proposal:
 android runtime/sdk/kernel modules packaged as debs for system
 let android runtime tools (and appstore) handle android apps
 maybe handle like perl cpan, python, etc, for shared apps...
 maybe build debs only for things we can rebuild from source into debs
 rejects converting binary android pkgs to debs

deployment:
 applications/runtime shared, user data to be per home directory
 runtime initially in ppa, relocate to archive karmic or karmic + 1
 what to call it? uar (ubuntu-android-remix)?? :)
 bzr / launchpad hosting runtime local changes, can upstream for git

questions:
 what about android apps that also touch/have runtime components??
 google appstore business arrangements?
 investigate integration of android runtime and clutter
 each android app has own effective userid...security model conflicts?

requirements:
 run apps outside isolated android env
  implies debs/system installable apps

action items:
 breakup runtime into packages
 kernel driver
 per user data/common stuff
 launchpad infrastructure
 collecting patches/updates/cleanup