Halium is a collaborative project to unify the

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for projects which run

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on mobile devices with pre-installed Android. The project aims to standardize the

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software used by various projects to talk with android daemons and make use of hardware on installed devices. It is distributed as free and open-source software under a mix of

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History

The project was announced in 2017 and tried to pool developers from UBports,

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community developers, the

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project,

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contributors, and among other developers to put an end to the fragmentation seen in their respective projects and achieve new goals jointly.

Features

The project has a planning with an overall idea which stack includes the following:Halium Project Planning
/ref> * Linux kernel *Android HAL *Sensors *Camera *RILd * Libhybris *Android HAL interfaces like Audioflingerglue and droidmedia *Build system and scripts *GPS - AGPS from

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*Media codecs * oFono

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External links

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Halium Documentation

Halium Official Telegram Group
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