Anbox
Anbox puts Android into a container and every Android application will be integrated with your operating system. Any Android version is suitable for this approach and tr...
What is Anbox?
Anbox puts the Android operating system into a container, abstracts hardware access and integrates core system services into a GNU/Linux system. Every Android application will be integrated with your operating system like any other native application.
To achieve our goal we use standard Linux technologies like containers (LXC) to separate the Android operating system from the host. Any Android version is suitable for this approach and we try to keep up with the latest available version from the Android Open Source Project.
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- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
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- RatingAverage rating of 3.4
- Alternatives36 alternatives listed
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- English
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- 363 Open Issues
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Tags
- Android Emulator
- android-virtualization
Once you get it going, Anbox is a very nice way to integrate a few Android apps into your Linux system.
Admittedly, it can take a bit of fiddling around to get it to play nice with the rest of the system, but once you've done that, you're good to go.
I'm running Debian Stable (11/Bullseye), and pull Anbox in from Testing, which is a newer release. It's not the fastest solution in history, but it does work, and it works nicely.
Definitely worth giving it a go!
Unfortunately only available as a Snap. That has been the case long enough that it's clear Canonical is not interested in making this available more broadly.
Good news - that is no longer correct. At least on Debian (and other distros I'd daresay), Anbox is available for installation in the repo's as a .deb package. Not sure if you can get a .deb for Ubuntu.
Getting it running nicely on Debian takes a bit of work, but is not that difficult. Debian Testing holds the newer version (June 2021).
I'm running Debian Stable (11/Bullseye) and pulling Anbox from Testing. Not all apps work, but the ones that do, work just fine. Also Anbox was recently patched to allow "server-side" window decoration, which means Anbox apps use the normal system windowing processes - much nicer integration into the system.
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Anbox will die
https://github.com/anbox/anbox/issues/2110
Sometimes it hangs, doesn't start or can't transfer clipboard text - BUT it's very cool that the installed Android apps act like regular applications and appear in the dahboard menu. Hoping, a more stable version is coming soon!
Bad: Many applications do not start or hang, but Anbox is still in the alpha stage. Good: Using this program is easier than running Android-x86 in a virtual machine.