Halium is an Open Source Project Working Towards a Common Base for Non-Android Mobile Operating Systems

The xda-developers blog looksat Project Halium. "This open-source project is trying to pooldevelopers from Ubuntu Touch ports, Sailfish OS community developers, theopen webOS Lune OS project, and KDE Plasma Mobile contributors, among otherdevelopers (Jolla, we suspect) to put an end to the fragmentation seen intheir respective project's lower-level base. Currently, Ubuntu Touch,Sailfish OS/Mer, Plasma Mobile, and others use different Android sourcetrees and methods for differently-built stacks. This leads to a lot offragmentation among the most popular non-Android, GNU/Linux-based mobile OSprojects in their use of the Android source tree, how the Android init isstarted, and how images are flashed to the device. Many of these projectsessentially do the same job, but in a different way." The goal ofHalium is to work towards a common Linux base, which can be used byall of these different projects.