general stuff
- we can't use ashmem (sailfish has it) because that was dropped from mainline kernels
- android supports memfd these days, but that has to be enabled via prop sys.use_memfd
- this is overwritten by android init system though
- need to comment the override out it system/etc/init/hw/init.rc (can use overlayfs for that)
- for graphics, we mostly need these props just like waydroid
ro.hardware.gralloc=gbm
ro.hardware.egl=mesa
apkd:
- providing some kind of host integration
- probably for startup and management of the container
- daemon running as root listening to com.jolla.apkd.control on dbus
- user daemon apkd-bridge
- install dbus configs not into /etc/ but into /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/
- appears to want to talk to systemd about aliendalvik.service
- that service needs to be installed
apkd-bridge:
- deps:
- libnemonotifications compiled from jolla
- libqt5contacts.so
- sailfish-policy package (for library) from phone
- (maybe not necessary) group privileged needs to exist, otherwise error
- package packagekit-qt5 for libraries
- forwards notifications and app launch requests to host
- runs as user on host
- only registers it's launcher thing on the binder if it sees that aliendalvik.service is running
- can check with binder-list -d /dev/binder for alien.notification and alien.launcher
- still doesn't seem to launch apps successfully though
- ahaa, it seems like it only works when all HALs sucessfully load or something?
alienaudioservice
- needs libalienaudioservice
- needs symlink from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib :(
- appears to need /etc/gbinder.conf and /etc/gbinder.d/alien.conf
- alienaudioservice -d /dev/binder -n /dev/vndbinder -w /dev/hwbinder --verbose
- ugh, the thing doesn't read configuration in /etc/appsupport.d/, so need to set binder devices via argument
- now wants to connect to default_alien and AlienAudioService: fails there
- ooof this one is tricky
- it appears to be something on /dev/vndbinder
- oh wow, it appears to work when starting android shortly before
- probably it needs a service manager to be running to register the services
- ERROR: service: Cannot connect to alien.audio.control/android.media.IAlienAudioControlService
- seems to not be a problem/blocking at this stage, this service starts up fairly late in android
- nothing to worry about as long as early startup isn't through
- what is the problem is that this enumeration of audio devices doesn't happen
- that's what it looks like on stdout with --verbose
[AlienAudioService] service: Shared buffer fd 31 (0x7dd32d1000) size 7680
[AlienAudioService] service: Output standby (0/125)
[AlienAudioService] service: Set parameters 125: "routing=2"
[AlienAudioService] service: Open output (0) io_handle(133) devices(2) flags(0x00000008) sample_rate(48000) channel_mask(3) format(1) -> 0
- ugh.. the problem is the UID mapping in lxc container config.. the whole thing has to run as the UID mapped there
- alright this thing works pretty well now
- seems that with pipewire-pulse, sound output stops after a while
- lets just use pulseaudio on the host for the time being
apkd-bridge-user:
- not needed to finish bootup
- fairly independent from other things it seems.
- what it does is bridge the HALs in #Proxies=android.hardware.graphics.allocator@4.0 et al into the container
- when Proxies are set in config, Service 'package_native' will wait and block boot for these
- install libQt5Sensors.so.5 from pacman (don't copy from dev, must match installed QT version)
- for gps stuff it needs (somewhat optional, also starts without it) /usr/lib64/apkd-bridge-user/libgeo-qtpositioning.so (jolla pkg apkd-plugin-geo-qtpositioning)
- that pulls in libQt5Positioning.so (arch pkg qt5-location)
- aha, actually this thing somehow provides HALs on hwbinder for gnss, sensors, wifi.supplicant, wifi
- it does a ton more stuff when looking at strings on the binary...
- it also does the mpris indicator
- yup, it also adds service on the normal binder: alien.NativeCall, alien.mediabrowsercontrol.bridge, alien.mce, wifinl80211
- arghhhh, I've spent 6 hours or something looking into why it doesn't install services on the hwbinder
- and it ended up being another damn UID thing: ro.alien.privileged_host_uid needs to be set to the one that's mapped to 1 apparently
system/vendor:
- general strategy: use aliendalvik vendor blob and put waydroid vendor blob on top (alien doesn't ship mesa drivers that work with mainline)
- symlinks of /etc/media_* must be removed and also replaced with waydroid ones
- otherwise signal won't start?
- graphics.allocator HAL? seems it's fine to comment that out
- apparently it's also possible to make it work by installing the waydroid vendor/bin stuff
- we can't *quite* reuse the normal aliendalvik vendor blob
- in alien vendor lib(64)/hw points to /host_vendor/lib(64)/hw
- we need lib(64) pointing to /host_vendor/lib(64)
- why? because /host_vendor is waydroid vendor, and we need to access egl drivers in there (and also various libs these drivers need)
- also in etc/vintf/manifest.xml, android.hardware.power and android.hardware.graphics.allocator need to be commented out
- there's no power HAL nor graphics allocator HAL available
- both are forwarded from hybris on sailfish
- graphics allocator we could provide via waydroid vendor, but doesn't seem to get us any benefits
video codecs:
- with libhybris we could forward the HW decoder directly it seems
- looks like we fail to decode h264/h265, but not in MKV container (test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny is very helpful)
- hmm with the mediaextractor minijail thing we did for Signal this seems to work, just super slow
- so debug.stagefright.ccodec=0 makes stagefright try to use sw codecs
- ccodec appears to the abstraction for hw codecs, going through libcodec2_client into libcodec2_vndk.so or libcodec2_hidl_client.so
- it tries to use libcodec2_vndk.so by default, that tries to access /dev/ion and crashes
- looks like ro.alien.hwservicemanager and ro.alien.host_has_hwservicemanager12 play a role here, they are used in all these libs
[tester@suagaze system-img]$ grep -r ro.alien.hwservicemanager
grep: system/lib64/libhidlbase.so: binary file matches
grep: system/lib64/libcodec2_client.so: binary file matches
grep: system/lib/libhidlbase.so: binary file matches
grep: system/lib/libcodec2_client.so: binary file matches
grep: system/apex/com.android.media.swcodec/lib64/libhidlbase.so: binary file matches
grep: system/apex/com.android.media/lib64/extractors/libmpeg2extractor.so: binary file matches
grep: system/apex/com.android.neuralnetworks/lib64/libneuralnetworks.so: binary file matches
grep: system/apex/com.android.neuralnetworks/lib/libneuralnetworks.so: binary file matches
- when unsetting ro.alien.hwservicemanager, android.hardware.media.omx fails to start and we hang when starting video
- appears to crash in libminijail due to: blocked syscall: recvfrom
- there should be policy for that in /vendor/etc/seccomp_policy/mediaswcodec.policy, but that file doesn't exist
- now it's complaining about /host_vendor/etc/seccomp_policy/mediacodec.policy, give him that too
- looks a lot like ro.alien.hwservicemanager=0 and debug.stagefright.ccodec=0 do the same thing
- hmm couldn't figure that out, I feel like this debug message plays a role
Unsupported profile 4 for video/mp4v-es
- oh there's also a few properties that can be set by appsupport-generate-config tool:
- ro.media.xml_variant.codecs, ro.media.xml_variant.codecs_performance, ro.media.xml_variant.profiles
- also CodecXmlSuffix in config
- playing videos in telegram doesn't work
- in Signal, getting called gives us a mediaextractor crash
- problem seems to be minijail blocking syscalls
- works by adding /opt/alien/vendor/etc/seccomp_policy/mediaextractor.policy with this content
- https://github.com/waydroid/android_external_stagefright-plugins/blob/da49cdba7b938ec9d973b9a74c9aac210b55bc8e/codec2/seccomp_policy/android.hardware.media.c2%401.1-ffmpeg-arm64.policy
- but remove all the fancy comparisons and make it always 1, otherwise filter won't compile
- outgoing call on whatsapp to iphone, voip connection takes super long
08-09 10:41:27.164 140 272 I WindowManager: Input event dispatching timed out sending to com.whatsapp/com.whatsapp.voipcalling.VoipActivityV2. Reason: ad09381 com.whatsapp/com.whatsapp.voipcalling.VoipActivityV2 (server) is not responding. Waited 5005ms for FocusEvent(hasFocus=true)
input/OSK:
- normal zwp_text_input through wayland appears to actually work
- but it's buggy and crashes on preedit_string(null)
- this is explicitly legal according to protocol
- hack might be to not send preedit_string with NIL string??
- it's actually *very* messy
- set_surrounding_text() only returns the text that's before the cursor, nothing behind it
- it also doesn't handle selected text at all
- preedit_string() doesn't appear to be handled at all
- commit_string() is only handled when cursor is at 0 (maybe this is connected to an empty set_surrounded_text() coming in before)
- or when doing commit_string() twice, but that might be the set_surrounded_text() reason
- either way, any commit_string() causes it to disable() and re-enable() the input panel
- this causes it to never disable() it anymore later.
- oh wow even better the damn thing seems to append "\n" to any string
- actually emulating normal wl_keyboard events might be our best bet
- then the auto-hide should keep working, and we're left with the auto-hide bug only for the emoji panel
- sailfish uses maliit and a custom keyboard on top of it
- maliit itself just spawns a fullscreens wayland surface to show the OSK
- yay, it's using qt_extended_surface protocol extension to implement always-on-top (https://github.com/qt/qtwayland/blob/dev/src/extensions/surface-extension.xml)
- actually that protocol doesn't seem too bad
- small dump of init of the OSK surface
[3342860.994] -> wl_compositor@4.create_surface(new id wl_surface@20)
[3342861.309] -> wl_registry@2.bind(11, "wl_shell", 1, new id [unknown]@21)
[3342861.565] -> wl_shell@21.get_shell_surface(new id wl_shell_surface@22, wl_surface@20)
[3342861.684] -> qt_surface_extension@9.get_extended_surface(new id qt_extended_surface@23, wl_surface@20)
[3342861.806] -> wl_shell_surface@22.set_title("")
[3342861.866] -> wl_shell_surface@22.set_class("maliit-server")
[3342861.907] -> wl_shell_surface@22.set_toplevel()
[3342861.947] -> wl_surface@20.set_buffer_scale(1)
[3342861.997] -> qt_extended_surface@23.set_content_orientation_mask(0)
[3342862.040] -> qt_extended_surface@23.set_window_flags(2)
[3342862.128] -> wl_shell_surface@22.set_fullscreen(0, 0, nil)
[3342862.208] -> wl_surface@20.set_buffer_transform(0)
[3342862.248] -> wl_surface@20.commit()
[3342863.572] -> wl_compositor@4.create_region(new id wl_region@24)
[3342863.686] -> wl_region@24.add(0, 2520, 1080, 0)
[3342863.796] -> wl_surface@20.set_opaque_region(wl_region@24)
[3342863.839] -> wl_region@24.destroy()
[3342863.989] -> qt_extended_surface@23.update_generic_property("CATEGORY", array)
[3342864.076] -> qt_extended_surface@23.update_generic_property("MOUSE_REGION", array)
[3342910.604] -> wl_compositor@4.create_surface(new id wl_surface@25)
- maybe zwp_input_panel_surface_v1 is what we want for that actually
- it seems that on sailfish, all IM/text input communication with OSK goes through peer-to-peer dbus socket, zero wayland involved
- /run/user/uid/maliit-server/dbus-socket
- could sniff that with advanced and very fancy eBPF stuff: https://bulimov.me/post/2021/12/02/unix-socket-snoop/, https://github.com/mechpen/sockdump
- qt apps talk directly on that private dbus (in qt it proabably works via IM plugin, set using global QT_IM_MODULE=Maliit)
- maliit also appears to support zwp_input_method_context_v1
- if we implement that in mutter, we could make communication Gtk<->maliit go through that
- that'd be what we want for OSK's in the future either way
- alienkeyboardservice talks directly to that socket just as qt
- oh hey we can snoop that using QDBUS_DEBUG=1 alienkeyboardservice
- uhh okay this is not too bad
- maybe we could shim a few things and keep using wl_text_input_v3
- shifting up input fields on android works via maliit
- <method name="updateInputMethodArea">
- could try to shim that?
- or we just run a full blown maliit as our keyboard
- possibly supporting zwp_input_method_context_v1 is "all" we need for that in mutter
- apparently there's also input_method_v2 from purism (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039255.html)
- seems not really worth it to implement v1 when it will get replaced anyway
- clipboard sharing works on sailfish from container to host, not other way round
- seems that sends proper wl_data_source.offer() via surfaceflinger, neat....
- alienkeyboardservice:
- yayy, this thing has a -d argument for the binder dev, but it doesn't actually use it
- can just use hex editor and change the binder dev in the binary, it's a NUL-terminated string, easy
- talks to the inputmethod jolla inside android
- talks to maliit-server over dbus p2p socket
- still not sure how to enable debugging there, strings suggests it has a verbose mode, no idea how it works
- we might want to shim maliit for the text-input shifting behavior inside android
- oh well, shimming maliit was nicely possible with some fancy python things
- buuut the damn thing crashes when wl_text_input is enabled at same time as alienkeyboard thingy
- only solution for us is to kill wl_text_input (their implementation is super duper buggy anyway)
- add a WAYLAND_DISABLE_PROTOCOL env var to wayland
- and make our shim a small wayland client for zwp_text_input
- pip3 install --user --break-system-packages pywayland
- python3 -m pywayland.scanner --with-protocols -o protocols
- oof, this is getting more and more tricky
- had to go the whole route and disable wl_text_input_v3 for alien
- now it does work, but the damn python dbus+wayland thing I wrote is pretty weird
- so getting a working keyboard now needs
- python fake-server.py
- python test.py
- alienkeyboardservice
compositor things:
- wayland socket is located at /run/display and is world-read+writeable on sailfish
- this is to allow surfaceflinger in the android container (with different user) to access it
- seems a bit dangerous that it's also accessible to random android processes?
- looks like we can create a separate user+group for SurfaceFlinger (it runs with UID 501000)
- then chown wayland socket for that group and make it 775
- okay fun, lipstick also implements a surface role for wayland: alien_manager / alien_surface
- looks like that is actually just a way of working around that lipstick doesn't do xdg-toplevel/xdg-wm
- seems like because of that we get to see the bugs now
- tried implementing the protocol in mutter, but doing two surface roles at the same time is a bad idea (and surfaceflinger really wants to)
- surfaceflinger crashes in wl_log() when enabling wayland debugging via debug.sf.wayland
- so surfaceflinger crashes on closing the last open window, then opening a new one, then touching it
- we send xdg_wm_base pings on input to windows to make sure they're alive
- it seems that when it sees a ping in some cases, it crashes when handling the event
- disabling pinging in mutter seems to do the trick
- also surfaceflinger sometimes accesses xdg_surfaces that have implicitly been freed after it requested wl_surface.destroy()
- causes client error from libwayland, tearing down the connection
- these can be worked around by making those client errors non-fatal in wayland
- another workaround seems to be waiting a bit longer with freeing the wl_resource on surface destroy in mutter
- REPRODUCER: open netflix, error appears and click "learn more", app crashes and surfaceflinger fucks up
- REPRODUCER: or open other apps and click the back button to leave them
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197137.171] -> xdg_surface#42.configure(93)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197137.201] -> wl_keyboard#12.leave(301, wl_surface#41)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197137.214] -> zwp_text_input_v3#3.leave(wl_surface#41)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197141.457] wl_surface#41.destroy()
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197167.465] -> wl_display#1.delete_id(33)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197167.501] -> wl_display#1.delete_id(42)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197167.538] -> wl_display#1.delete_id(41)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197167.549] wl_display#1.sync(new id wl_callback#46)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197167.557] -> wl_callback#46.done(301)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197167.563] -> wl_display#1.delete_id(46)
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: [4197167.780] -> wl_display#1.error(wl_display#1, 0, "invalid object 42")
Jul 12 15:36:19 oneplus6 gnome-shell[448812]: WL: error in client communication (pid 456513)
- another occurence
Jul 12 14:52:47 oneplus6 gnome-shell[425720]: [1585117.972] -> wl_display@1.error(wl_display@1, 1, "invalid arguments for wl_surface@55.attach")
Jul 12 14:52:47 oneplus6 gnome-shell[425720]: WL: unknown object (2117946272), message attach(?oii)
Jul 12 14:52:47 oneplus6 gnome-shell[425720]: WL: error in client communication (pid 439093)
- when starting apps, they often only start drawing on touch input
- could have something to do with us only focusing the app on input?
- maybe it's the configure() event we send them when focusing
- scaling is borked, on hidpi alien windows are blurry
- lipstick supports wl_output, but does wl_output.scale(1), apparently scaling is done via env variable or smth
- can fix that by reading the wm_class and then special-casing alien windows in mutter
- it seems they're leaking their wl_region's, lovely...
- sailfish sets opaque regions too, good thing their phones have so much ram :D
- we also get our fair share of bugs :)
- looks like we sometimes send zwp_text_input.leave event after wl_surface.destroy()
- REPRODUCER: sometimes this works: open netflix, error appears and click "learn more", now app crashes
Jul 12 14:46:10 oneplus6 gnome-shell[425720]: [1187342.350] wl_surface@34.destroy()
Jul 12 14:46:10 oneplus6 gnome-shell[425720]: [1187342.532] -> zwp_text_input_v3@3.leave(wl_surface@34)
Jul 12 14:46:10 oneplus6 gnome-shell[425720]: WL: error marshalling arguments for leave (signature uo): null value passed for arg 1
- on the pinephone pro, we crash after a while in the gallium driver
- fixed by setting different openglES version: ro.opengles.version=196609
network access/fake wifi:
- there's two props that exclude each other: ro.alien.sailfish_networking ro.alien.default_networking
- sailfish uses the former by default, controlled by /etc/appsupport.conf.d/property-pre-hooks/50-networking.sh
- ah damn, it's also provided somehow by apkd-bridge-user
- waydroid uses lxc networking spawning an eth0 inside the container
- sets up manually a waydroid0 interface on host with firwall and masquerading (https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/blob/822598850d0c16a968fb8ea4b5768d4ba323f0e5/data/scripts/waydroid-net.sh)
- see for lxc config https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/blob/822598850d0c16a968fb8ea4b5768d4ba323f0e5/data/configs/config_1
- probably due to being eth0, this requires fake wifi stuff
- waydroid has a fake wifi thing controlled by persist.waydroid.fake_wifi (https://github.com/waydroid/android_vendor_waydroid/commit/629b76f254d07d373092f7c18efcbefbc0f9ad94)
- seems to be per app (https://github.com/waydroid/docs/blob/9b5be41b9233aecf201471596fc6e84f7423ab85/usage/waydroid-prop-options.md?plain=1#L22)
- not used by default?
- alright, alien also uses lxc to install a bridge into the container
- but at the same time it implements a wifi HAL to pretend to be connected to wifi
- it asks connman for connected wifi and then returns that SSID, interesting
- need to copy lxc-net from device, seems that arch lxc no longer ships that script
- need to shim connman dbus
- what we're looking for from the contianer is starting the scanner, then notifying the net
com.jolla.apkd.wifi: apkd: android.net.wifi.nl80211.IWifiScannerImpl 10
com.jolla.apkd.wifi: apkd - supplicant - notifyWifiNetwork 0xaaaae832fac0 "iPhone von Jonas"
- connman installed on system is still needed (probably only for the dbus interface definition)
- alright took me like another hour to get the shim working for android to pick up the network
- but then android said "no internet", I thought I'm missing something else in the shim
- after two more hours of randomly shimming other apis and trying whatever finally figured it out
- android can't resolve dns, and its not because of the shim
- it'S because it uses the dns cache of the host and sets its dns 127.0.0.1
- connman provided a resolver on localhost:53, and the systemd-resolved NM uses apparently doesn't answer those queries
- can test with "dig heise.de @127.0.0.1"
- resolved listens on 127.0.0.53 by default
- setting DNSStubListenerExtra=127.0.0.1 makes it work, arghhhhh.
cellular network
- android is always looking for iRadio HAL, need to check if that one's exposed by apkd-bridge on jolla
- things work just fine with the wifi shim for now
- looks like exposing cellular info via connman shim doesn't work :/
- actually iRadio HAL is not exposed by any apkd-* tools, instead it's exposed by ofono it seems
- that's unfortunate, it's probably bound to ofono making use of hybris radio HALs somehow
- yup, there's /usr/lib64/ofono/plugins/alienbinderplugin.so
gps
- good news, appears to go via geoclue
- kinda works OOTB, but location is not as accurate as on host it seems
- apkd-bridge-user has debug output for it
- there's a nice gtk app for debugging: Satellite on flathub (it talks to ModemManager directly)
- turns out modemManager doesn't do gps without a sim card
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager/-/issues/183
- okay, so there's the geoclue2 API backend for qtpositioning, that's good
- sadly it doesn't have a satellites API anymore like Geoclue dbus api had
- alright, let's build qtLocation 5.0 ourselves
- looks like it really wants to use the old Geoclue1 api, the plugin has a higher prio
- can run geoclue with debug using sudo G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=Geoclue /usr/lib/geoclue
- aha, here's our problem: the thing only requests shit accuracy from geoclue
- seems it relies on a thing that both the android and geoclue1 plugin do: set default accuracy to ALL in plugin constructor
- if we do that too, things work!!
sensors
- qtsensors has a fairly minimal iio-sensor-proxy backend
- no support for proximity
- fairly easy, can wire that up quickly
- no accellerometer (iio-sensor-proxy doesn't expose)
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/merge_requests/193
- first need to allow querying iio-sensor-proxy as user by changing polkit
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/net.hadess.SensorProxy.policy
- for compass access also need to change dbus policy
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/net.hadess.SensorProxy.conf
- compass doesn't have a backend that works on most phones yet, see
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/merge_requests/316
- rotation/gyro sensor is not really wanted in iio-sensor-proxy without a use-case
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/issues/221
- seems that messengers use proximity sensor for audio route during voice messages actually
- looool telegram combines it with accelerometer readings it seems, how insane
- seems like also android makes use of orientation sensor and rotates apps, we probably don't want that
app rotation
- android does it itself based on orientation sensor readings
- looks weird and interferes with mutter, rotating, also doesn't adhere to "allow autorotation" gsetting
- can disable with "settings put system accelerometer_rotation 0;" in container
vibration
- can debug feedbackd with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all /usr/lib/feedbackd
- doesn't work by default
- seems to be provided by alienaudioservice actually
- more specifically by the sailfish plugin, interesting
- let's try loading the plugin
- fails without these libs: libprofile, libresource, libresource-glib, libngf0
- now it hangs up looking for org.maemo.resource.manager on dbus it seems
- is exposed by ohmd (open hardware manager)
- more specifically by this plugin it seems https://github.com/sailfishos/ohm-plugins-misc/blob/master/plugins/resource/
- trace of system dbus on initialization here: dbus-trace-alienaudio-sailfish-plugin.txt
- let's shim it, ah neat preexisting stuff to shim the policy manager
https://github.com/sailfishos/libresource/blob/master/tests/dbus/dummy-policy-manager.py
audio routing:
- goes through alienaudioservice sailfish plugin
https://github.com/sailfishos/ohm-plugins-misc/blob/master/plugins/route/org.nemomobile.Route.Manager.xml
https://github.com/sailfishos/ohm-plugins-misc/blob/master/plugins/route/ohm-ext/route.h
- routing to earpiece during voice messages that goes a bit differently
- sailfish doesn't re-route here
- app reads sensors and sets media role:
[AlienAudioService] sailfish: Stream 29 set 'media.role'='phone'
[AlienAudioService] sailfish: Stream 29 set 'module-stream-restore.id'='sink-input-by-media-role:voip'
- maybe this is how it works on android and we're supposed to route to earpiece now?
lockscreen calls:
- seems sailfish doesn't do fullscreen intents for incoming calls
- we can possibly hack that and put app into lockscreen overlay by looking at notification
- resident == true && category == call
- activate default action and show surface as lockscreen overlay
- tricky: telegram behaves differently depending on screen was off or on
- when off, it shows swipy thing to not accidentlly click, when on, it shows clicky thing
- what about ongoing calls on lockscreen
- there's again a notification, maybe can use that still
ringtone silencing
- on sailfish, ngfd just enforces the silent profile by killing haptics
https://github.com/sailfishos/ngfd/blob/master/src/ngf/haptic.c#L187
- seems like same goes for ringtone, the stream is created, but appears to be killed by pulse based on media.role=ringing
- what do we do?
- in the future, call ringtone and vibration will be played by notification server anyway
- we know when an alien call is ringing, so can probably kill vibration and mute the alien stream in our audio shim to allow notification server taking over
- kills custom ringtones on android, oh well
- won't work for alarm clocks, there we don't know about ringing state
- or we just let things through normally and enforce silent profile in the shim for both haptics and audio on incoming call
- maybe that's the best way for now
contacts sync:
- another tricky one, they replace system contacts UI and database with host one
- breaks things for us of course
- we might have to shim com.jolla.contacts.ui dbus
- we can see createContact() being called from android
- handled by apkd-bridge
- according to changelogs, bridge "Sync all contacts to alien on service connect"
- to ensure it works, on startup of container, look for this
com.jolla.apkd.binder: Connected to Alien Service alien.contacts
com.jolla.apkd.contacts: Checking if Alien contacts service is ready for synchronisation
com.jolla.apkd.contacts: Alien contacts service is available, performing initial sync
Successfully notified Alien contacts service of current contacts.
- also contact modification should be detected
"Notifying Alien contacts service of contact addition:"
- okayy, so this talks to libQtContacts and a custom sqlite backend on sailfish
- wowwww, we're lucky, there's a libfolks backend from ~2010 for QtCOntacts available
- https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Folks/QtFolks
- https://blog.barisione.org/2010/11/17/folks-and-qtcontacts/
- https://launchpad.net/~m-gehre/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages
- damn was finding those sources hard
- okay with a few adjustments it builds and the demo confirms it works, yaaaaay!
- now still have to make sure it gets loaded and used by apkd-bridge
- ah wow that was super tricky, because strings didn't find any references to the plugin name (org.nemomobile.contacts.sqlite) in any binaries
- turns out apkd-bridge still demands that plugin, it probably puts the string together in an un-greppable way, damn....
- okay so we're gonna have to force our own plugin then via custom build of libQt5Contacts
- ugh, it's still not working, but at least now apkd-bridge spews a log on contact changes in folks, let's try removing data dir
- damn, another few hours later, managed to get some debug output from contacts sync on sailfish now
- apkd-bridge can only read contacts db when run with invoker, but then we don't get debug output
- so instead run it as root to read new contacts db, and create contacts with jolla-contacts run as root
- okay now we know that successful initial sync looks like this
[D] unknown:0 - Alien contacts service is available, performing initial sync
[D] unknown:0 - Notifying Alien contacts service of all current contacts: 1
[D] unknown:0 - Successfully notified Alien contacts service of contact change.
[W] unknown:0 - Successfully notified Alien contacts service of current contacts.
- turns out there's also a race involved
- apkd-bridge gets the contacts via ManagerEngine::contacts() before we got our invidiuals-changed from folks
- this means it doesn't sync any contacts initially, but doesn't explain why it also won't pick up changes to contacts
- oh woooow
- adding and modifying contact changes seems to go via dbus (all with variant (au))
- org.nemomobile.contacts.sqlite.contactsAdded
- org.nemomobile.contacts.sqlite.contactsChanged
- deleting can go via both QtCOntacts API signal or dbus signal
- org.nemomobile.contacts.sqlite.contactsRemoved
- it seems that sailfish creates two contacts for everyone, possibly one system one and one android one
- the IDs on their dbus output are QContactId.toString()
- the IDs passed on their dbus signals are the QContactId without prefix 73716c2d3 (QByteArrayLiteral("sql-"))
- so these dbus signals are emitted from the sqlite backend actually, no idea why that would be done in addition to the normal cpp-signals
- after another two days, got it to pick up dbus emissions too by setting the QCollectionId (QByteArrayLiteral("col-")) and QContactType on individual contacts now, yaayyy
desktop files for apps
- mostly appears to work
- jolla style of icons is a bit annoying
- handled by apkd-bridge
file sharing between host and container
- looks like some xdg-folders are synced into container as sdcard
- home directory is synced into android as sdcard via config MountHome
- it's just mounted by lxc, neat
other things
- after startup bluetooth crashes all the time
- seems to be an "upstream" bug, jolla solves this using alien-post-startup.sh by disabling bluetooth daemon (see comment in there)
- video decoding for some videos doesn't work (see video codecs section)
- the media control service can crash sometimes (playing around with switching between apps during playing spotify music)
- see media-control-service-while-starting-spotify crash file
- system webview is crashing
- it appears to try using ashmem and then fails because
07-13 16:57:45.257 8198 8198 E chromium: [ERROR:platform_shared_memory_region_android.cc(189)] Ashmem region has a wrong protection mask: it is not read-only but it should be
- it's a memfd instead of ashmem specific issue, there's a patch that fixes it in waydroid
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/third_party/ashmem/patches/0004-Fixup-ashmem_get_prot_region-for-memfd.patch
- can work around by replacing webview with the one from waydroid
- camera will only work when running on top libhybris and forwarding the HAL
what's needed to be done:
- lots of dbus shimming (sorted by importance)
- launching of system apps from within android (just a single dbus call invoking the thing)
- browser
- contacts
- more...
- send configure() wayland events so that clients start drawing immediately
incomplete list of deps and files:
apdk-bridge deps
- libnemonotifications-qt5.so.1 (get from phone)
- libpackagekitqt5.so.1 (arch pkg packagekit-qt5)
- libQt5Contacts.so.5 (no arch pkg, build it ourselves)
alienaudioservice
- libalienaudioservice (get from phone)
- libglibutil.so.1 (arch pkg libglibutil)
- libgbinder.so.1 (arch pkg libgbinder)
apkd-bridge-user
- libmlite5.so.0 (arch pkg mlite)
- libkeepalive.so.1 and libkeepalive-glib.so.1 (get from phone)
- libambermpris (get from phone)
- libapkd (get from phone)
- libqt5sensors (arch pkg qt5-sensors)
- libiphb.so.0 (get from phone)
- libdbusaccess.so.1 (get from phone)
- libconnman-qt5.so.1 (get from phone)
- apkd-plugin-geo-qtpositioning
- installs /usr/lib64/apkd-bridge-user/libgeo-qtpositioning.so
- libQt5Positioning.so (arch pkg qt5-location)
config files
/etc/aas-seccomp-profile
/etc/apkd/app-blacklist (here we removed settings app)
/etc/apkd/notif-blacklist
/etc/gbinder.conf
/etc/gbinder.d/alien.conf
/etc/appsupport.conf.d/*
/usr/lib/systemd/system/aliendalvik.service
aliendalvik system img + vendor img + build.prop:
/opt/alien/vendor/*
/opt/alien/system.img
/opt/alien/build.prop
useful stuff:
all tools are using Qt debugging tools, debug using QT_LOGGING_RULES="*.debug=true"
shell inside container: lxc-attach --name=aliendalvik --lxcpath=/tmp/appsupport -- /system/bin/sh
trace files that get opened: strace -f -t -e trace=file binary
debugging wayland because debug.sf.wayland causes crash: put WAYLAND_DEBUG into /etc/environment of host to use mutter debugging
starting app inside android: am start com.android.settings
installing app inside android: pm install -t -f /data/local/tmp/app.apk (needs right permissions)
starting things automatically
- it's kinda bound to be a mess :(
- alien it depends on stuff running in the user session, and can only start when the user session is up
- alien itself needs to be run by root though
- and that's not enough, most things in the user session need to be started at a specific pointer after container is up
- so what do we do?
- really nice would be starting and stopping the whole thing from a user service
- could talk to a root helper via dbus which then does configuration and starts/stops the container
- would have to fiddle with user services as root again though
- for data isolation between users
- let's have the data dirs inside user dirs so they can be encrypted
- maybe make it an img file that can be owned fully by the user and is mounted into lxc