Anbox Cloud 1.16 Released With Intel & AMD Vulkan GPU Support

[aeS2eun0]

What? Anbox cloud is open source. Here's the link https://github.com/anbox-cloud

It's not open source. Everything you can find on their github is just SDKs, docs, even website source, but not the main thing — source code of the cloud anbox version.

[Quackdoc]

I gave up caring about Android on a desktop emulator such as Anbox. Even when you get it to work, there are still form factor and input device limitations, as well as reduced functionality. I have a chromebook, and the same is true even there. Many programs, such as MSOffice, don’t even publish their app for any form factor other than phone. So far, the only android program I end up using is Krita.

there are plenty of apps that support a "tablet" form factor, and with native window integration, its not that bad anyways IMO, on touch devices having accsess to android apps help a wack load.

currently on linux I would say crosvm/qemu + bliss is the best if you want input device, but waydroid is known issue. though if you just want a controller or touch mapping you can use scrcpy and/o reconnecting controller while the container is running and waydroid will pickup the controller, but it always picks it up, an issue needing fixed

[darkoverlordofdata]

I gave up caring about Android on a desktop emulator such as Anbox. Even when you get it to work, there are still form factor and input device limitations, as well as reduced functionality. I have a chromebook, and the same is true even there. Many programs, such as MSOffice, don’t even publish their app for any form factor other than phone. So far, the only android program I end up using is Krita.

[Quackdoc]

Waydroid works very well on my PinePhone Pro, but obviously that requires Wayland so it's not going to work for everyone, at least not yet.

well you can run it in a nested compositor, someone is making an wayland layer (similar to xwayland but the other way around), and some people have said that maybe scrcpy might be a viable alternative too.

i havent tested it but I think arcan based compositors should "work" since I think their wayland bridge has enough features for at least basic functionality.

[hamishmb]

Waydroid works very well on my PinePhone Pro, but obviously that requires Wayland so it's not going to work for everyone, at least not yet.

[cooperate]

Fedora is not beginner friendl and lacks the wife support Ubuntu has.

Good, wouldn't want them to steal other distros' wives.

[frank.zhou]

I use waydroid daily, on arch not using Nvidia its literally as simple as running zen kernel and wayland, installing waydroid from aur, waydroid init (-s GAAPS) and running waydroid, waydroid even supports "native like windows" as well as a full android UI. arm translation is incredibly easy to do. vulkan supported too. yeah there are some bugs, but if that's an issue, more devs working welcome . right now 2 of the devs are busy so there is only really one active dev working on it and a couple other contributors.

EDIT: if you did want a cloud soluton, redroid is a good solution too

EDIT2: we waydroid users also dont need angle for GLES support, we can just run GLES

FYI, if anyone interested on the *redroid* project

https://github.com/remote-android

[Quackdoc]

Fedora is not beginner friendl and lacks the wife support Ubuntu has.

Also, Ubuntu is a good OS

what? fedora is one of the most beginner friendly distros of all. the only thing you need need to do is enable nonfree repos, but even then thats not that bad, and something nobara entirely sidesteps, cant say i know what you mean by wife support.

ubuntu meanwhile has been the cause of much headache due to various bugs, and other oob stuff that other distros like fedora dont have. not to mention a lot of the software on ubuntu is quite old compared to other distros.

but regardless, if you want android on linux, fedora (and co.) and arch are the best options

[jorgepl]

if you want simple, install a good OS like fedora instead of Ubuntu, then all you need to do is enable the waydroid copr (one line command officially supported by dnf). then you install waydroid like you would any other app. the only "issue" with fedora is you need to read and copy two lines, but if that's too hard. you would struggle getting android apps to work on windows anyways. since win11 android app support isn't out of box either. so if thats too complicated, go buy a chromebook.

WSA requires you to use bypasses to get around the store gapps issues. (which is necessary for a LOT of stuff) and google play games needs you to enable hyperv on AMD systems.

and every other solution involves something like bluestacks or memu

Fedora is not beginner friendl and lacks the wife support Ubuntu has.

Also, Ubuntu is a good OS

[Quackdoc]

Sounds complicated. I have no idea how to install Arch, and I have no idea what Zen kernel is, or how to install it, it sounds like some third-party out-of-tree patched Linux kernel. No idea what AUR is, but it sounds like some third-party package source that you have to manually configure to use.

All I know is on Ubuntu I can't run Android apps out-of-the-box. Can't run them with a single click. Can't double click on a .apk file.

Think its possible to run some weird shell scripts to load some third-party DKMS module that forces you to disable UEFI Secure Boot or something. Yeah, complicated, too complicated. So much easier with Windows 11.

if you want simple, install a good OS like fedora instead of Ubuntu, then all you need to do is enable the waydroid copr (one line command officially supported by dnf). then you install waydroid like you would any other app. the only "issue" with fedora is you need to read and copy two lines, but if that's too hard. you would struggle getting android apps to work on windows anyways. since win11 android app support isn't out of box either. so if thats too complicated, go buy a chromebook.

WSA requires you to use bypasses to get around the store gapps issues. (which is necessary for a LOT of stuff) and google play games needs you to enable hyperv on AMD systems.

and every other solution involves something like bluestacks or memu