China will have its own mobile operating system with Android emulator within six months

China will have its own mobile operating system that supports emulating Android apps in about six months. A consortium of Chinese companies uses Sailfish OS from the Finnish Jolla as a basis for this.

A Chinese consortium of companies is investing more than two hundred million euros in the development of the operating system for smartphones, TVs, internet-of-things, smartwatches and the car industry, claims Jolla.

China is following Russia with the development of its own variant of Sailfish OS, which previously did the same. According to Jolla, which stems from Nokia’s MeeGo and Maemo arm, Sailfish is the only mobile operating system that countries can license and customize to their own taste.

Sailfish is a Linux kernel-based operating system developed by Finnish Jolla. The former Nokia engineers hoped for success in the consumer market, but that was not forthcoming. Sailfish OS includes an emulator to run Android apps and supports notifications and other features of Android apps among other things. After a financial debacle surrounding the crowdfunding campaign of the Jolla Tablet, it released its Jolla C smartphone last year with a circulation of 1,000. It gave up the consumer market and focused on licensing its operating system.