UserLAnd compatibility with KitKat 4.4

[AC100Addict]

Dear developers,

First, I would like to thank you for your great work on this very useful and well polished tool ! I am using it on several devices and I'd like to use it on some of my old tablets/phones which will regain a huge interest for me as small linux servers.

On your manifest, UserLAnd is only compatible with android 5.0 or upper versions.

Will it be possible to make it compatible with android KitKat 4.4 ? Is there any blocking point with KitKat version ?

I tried to install it through APK on my KitKat 4.4 tablet but I got a black screen and a fatal error from the beginning.

Other solutions exist (GNURoot, Debian noroot, LinuxDeploy...) but no all works, some need Root or use old distributions. I would like to avoid Root solutions and I'd like to rely on an app which is still maintained by developers with recent distributions. According to my search UserLAnd is the best flexible and user-friendly solution out there!

Thank you for your support

[AdamMatthewLTM]

@AC100Addict ,

This is technically a duplicate of an older post request, but the short answer to your question is:

if anything lower than 5.0 will be supported in the future, it will be a lower priority than other issues due to programming and support difficulties.

I'm going to recommend you keep this thread open in case enough people want support for older android versions, in which case please comment here or leave a thumbs up for the original poster. Please note, getting support for those older versions is a LOT of work and we can't give anything like a rough ETA on completion yet.

I am sorry for the inconvenience this might cause users for older android versions, and we'd like to thank all of our users for their continued support of UserLAnd. We really do appreciate all of your input and suggestions -Adam

[projectextremum]

There is a manual way to do it. But you have to figure out how to compile proot statically with source level modifications, and do some more things in terminal.

officially provided static builds won't work.

Your best bet is Pelya's noroot debian -- it is bit outdated but should work.

Terminal IDE should work as well. There are gentoo prefix builds on sourceforge supposed to work on terminal IDE. But you are advised to build yourself latest versions.

[carbonatedcaffeine]

Yes I Recommend DebianNoroot... It's A Good Start To Linux.

[SussySonic123]

I need a kitkat version of UserLAnd because i need to install ubuntu on my kitkat phone

[Pierrestro]

i'm working on a port modded version of userland for android 4.4. it may not work on every android 4.4 device