Looking for a desktop environment suitable for use as a phone interface in FreeBSD installed on a phone.

[hruodr]

Older Motorola, Samsung and Pixel phones are well known and fully hacked. I remember old LG phones where you can dual boot Windows CE and Android. Unfortunately, such hardware is way too old for these kids that need 8K display resolution and 150 Megapixel octa lens camera. Which brings us to original conclusion. Its completely pointless and useless. In this very case, there is nothing to learn and nothing to gain.

But even if you install FreeBSD there, does one have the driver for the modem? For GPS? For touch screen? And all the hardware there?

That is why I insist in building from android.

I would not say pointless, a mobile unix-like computer in which one have the control may have many uses, even if it is not usable as modern smartphone.

 

[myuserid]

The problem here is not technical at all. I'm sure ZioMario will overcome all technical problems and finally succeed, whichever route he takes. The problem is that his phone will be useless because it won't have any ecosystem.

Take banks, for instance. There's a trend among them to discontinue their web banking in favor of their banking app. If you have a smartphone, you absolutely want it to run your bank's app, but your bank only provides it for iOS and Android.

Building a phone OS is challenging, but given enough time and dedication, a single person can do it. What a single person will never be able to do is build an ecosystem - only third parties can do that, it if there's a return on investment.

 

[ZioMario]

But even if you install FreeBSD there, does one have the driver for the modem? For GPS? For touch screen? And all the hardware there?

That is why I insist in building from android.

I would not say pointless, a mobile unix-like computer in which one have the control may have many uses, even if it is not usable as modern smartphone.

The touch screen already works in my scenario without any special configuration. That's because I've chosen a good display. In addition I'm using one USB physical mini keyboard. I will not implement the GPS. I don't need any special driver to enable the LTE / 4G + 4 ports HUB modem USB. So. I don't need any Android.
At the moment is already recognized by FreeBSD. One later step is to write a decent DialPad for placing and receiving phone calls. But since this is a phone,I can't stop here. I need a full desktop manager that looks like perfect to be used on a phone,that will add a Contact list and a Call history which naturally covers both dialed and received calls. Yeah,I'm enjoying very much,I will make a decent final product.

 

[ZioMario]

The problem here is not technical at all. I'm sure ZioMario will overcome all technical problems and finally succeed, whichever route he takes. The problem is that his phone will be useless because it won't have any ecosystem.

Take banks, for instance. There's a trend among them to discontinue their web banking in favor of their banking app. If you have a smartphone, you absolutely want it to run your bank's app, but your bank only provides it for iOS and Android.

Half True. For the banks,yes,I'm out. I can't do nothing to support home banking. But I will try to improve the Linuxulator for a better Linux compatibility and I will try to port some software structure from Android to FreeBSD,with a fresh reimplementation,for supporting a limited number of Android applications. As alternative,I could try to virtualize Android using qemu+bhyve.