

They'd have to make Android entirely closed source before and that won't happen unless they wanna fight almost every other big IT company these days.” Seriousn00b: “Google can't do anything about it, the project uses AOSP as a base. Smartdanny: “I would imagine that Google probably doesn't want this right? Since the newest big selling point of Chromebooks is that they now run Android apps.” May be check the script for the list of modulkes and port it to your distro. They are part of the upstream kernel but usualy excluded.

The github script just installs the snap too.” SecretelyAMosinNagant: “Just FYI, it looks like this is only available via snap right now. Venoush: “It works on my 16.04 machine, but feels like alpha version right now (crashes on music player) but its quite snappy.” The news about Anbox caught the attention of Linux redditors and they shared their thoughts:Į06SP: “Is this legit? I've only seen people talking about it, but no reviews.” Here's a video of Anbox in action running Android apps in Ubuntu: But Ubuntu, arch, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and several other popular Linux-based operating systems already support snaps.

The software is still in alpha and the installer the installer currently requires an operating system that supports snaps, so not all Linux users will be able to easily install Anbox right now.

That’s because Anbox is designed to run on GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Fedora, using the same Linux kernel for both the host operating system and for Android. But for the most part those applications set up a virtual machine that isolates your entire Android experience from the rest of your operating system.Īnbox is a new open source system that lets you run Android apps on a PC natively, as if they were desktop applications. Want to run Android apps on a PC? Developers have been offering emulators like BlueStacks and Genymotion for years. Even Apple's iOS pales in comparison in terms of the sheer numbers of devices that run Android.īut did you know that there’s an open source project called Anbox (Android in a Box) that lets you run Android apps in Linux? Android rules the roost when it comes to mobile operating systems, it has the biggest market share by far.
