Hybris or libhybris is a

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for computers running

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s based on the

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, intended for using software written for Bionic-based

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systems, which mainly includes Android libraries and

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History

Hybris was initially written by Carsten Munk, a Mer developer, who released it on

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on 5 August 2012 and publicly announced the project later that month. Munk has since been hired by Jolla as their Chief Research Engineer. Hybris has also been picked up by the

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community for WebOS Ports, by

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for

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and by the AsteroidOS project. In April 2013, Munk announced that Hybris has been extended to allow

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s to use graphic device drivers written for Android.

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has had support for libhybris since version 1.3, which was released on 11 October 2013.

Features

Hybris loads "Android libraries, and overrides some symbols from bionic with

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" calls, making it possible to use Bionic-based software, such as binary-only Android drivers, on glibc-based Linux distributions. Hybris can also translate Android's EGL calls into Wayland EGL calls, allowing Android graphic drivers to be used on Wayland-based systems. This feature was initially developed by

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's Pekka Paalanen for his Android port of Wayland.

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