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Dear all,
We're pleased to provide you a fresh update on the latest Anbox developments, that have been achieved last week:
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Backported dmabuf from upstream mir to ubports mir in order to fix anbox display on pinephone (and other mainline devices with ubports)
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Switched from qtwayland to native wayland
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Prevented anbox from sleep and lock state
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Added x86 support and lxc version >2 to scripts
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Merged microg patches
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Added mouse and keyboard support to wayland
Thank you for your support (and patience). We also thank (one more time) Erfan for his great work!
Continue to support Anbox project development: https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox
See you soon for the next update!
Rudi and Steve
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Micro G ? Did I read that right? Good news.
Question: as it stands, is this new anbox a big energy consumer or not?
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@domubpkm Yes indeed MicroG will works just fine, no it dont eat that mutch battery as before it would use battery that's normoly....
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I have a question, maybe farfetched
, that comes to my mind : (the new) anbox is based on android 9 or 10 or 11 ? And must be updated according to the evolutions of android to adapt to the last versions of the app ? -
@domubpkm LineageOS 17 based on Android 10 is the version AFAIK used in the new Anbox. This should be sufficent for a while, as security updates for that will be provided for quite some time.
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@povoq yes, it was written : april 28, 2021 and i had zapped..
@Xray2000 said : '' We are very excited to announce that a primitive Anbox container has newly been built based on LineageOS 17 (Android 10)'' -
Is there a current version which is easy to install and test?
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@invy It's not yet ready for alpha testings, but work is running well.
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@domubpkm Anbox would be updated to newer Android...when it is needed...
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Dear all,
Here are the latest Anbox developments over the past 7 days:
- Cleanups on display driver and updates
- Fix early unity8 crashes on first launch
- Fixed scaling on plasma and gnome
- Fixed media on x86
Work is still going on, Thanks to Erfan, our "in-house" developer!
Are you also interested to get a reliable solution to run your Android apps in Ubuntu Touch? Please continue to support this project that could NOT happened without YOU!
https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox
See you soon for the next update!
Rudi and Steve
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Are you all working with X86 Anbox team? Wondering if the wonderful work you are doing here will translate to X86 devices as well?
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@rocket2nfinity Indeed we are working for UT and also for X86 devices...
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Dear all,
We're happy to provide you the latest Anbox-Halium developments, that have been achieved the latest 14 days:
. Initial support for multi windows
. Create gbinder python binding lib
. Fix browser into Anbox
The next large work will be to improve Anbox server. Erfan is already working on this stuff.
One more time, thank you very much for your support and Erfan's involvement!
Thank you for donate and share our fundraising campaign: https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox
See you soon for a next exciting statement!
Cheers, Rudi and Steve
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Thanks again to everyone for the hard work. I am a big supporter of this work, but am a bit lost: the recent work seems to be focused around multi-window, etc. for desktop, which I would think is 2nd level priority over getting apps to work well "full screen" for phones. Is it all needing to be done at the same time, or can enough polish be made for phone users first, then those testers and feedback can inform desktop work as a 2nd stage? Maybe phone use is already polished enough, but I have thought it isn't ready to test yet?
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Hello all,
I am very surprised how smoothly the new Anbox works on the video and am really looking forward to testing it myself sometime! Very big thank you for all the hard work.
I unfortunately don't (yet) understand much about Linux/Ubuntu Touch and the technologies behind it (switched from BlackBerry OS 10 myself, which could also play Android apps, but with better hardware integration), so I wanted to ask if Anbox is expected to work on the Nexus 5 as well?
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@rik I think having apps in separate windows is also relevant to phones/tablets. As show in previous videoa, a full Lineage system is booted and looking like a virtual machine unlike the old anbox. But with this it's more like the old one which looks and works more integrated into the system.
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Erfan posted this reply to my above question on telegram:
"Hey i was just going to reply your post in forums that noticed you are already in group so if u don't mind i'll answer here
first of all thank you very much for your support, really appriciated
but recently focus was in finalizing application managment in display instead of a full android screen
for weekly report i just said said multi-windowing but in reality the work behind of it was more for detecting/selecting open apps in screennow i'm working on a sever-like tool to glow this pieces together and have something usable for users with proper app managment"
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@stanwood That sounds like a great project! Heck if all Android apps worked, it seems like Ubuntu touch would be a better OS, as it would have all the android stuff running in a Java VM, and then all the native open source stuff, which I assume could be ported, like all the linux stuff should run fine on arm64 with a touchscreen interface, either by adding a touchscreen interface to popular linux apps, or that sorta thing.
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How are ya'll implementing the android compatibility? Like is it a generic Java VM that runs on ARM64, and you can just use a java vm, or do you need that + specific libraries that might be copyrighted, and then you gotta re-implement those libraries, or is it like a clusterf*** and they did a bunch of weird proprietary s*** and it might be easier to make a tool to let developers recompile their source code for free for a new target?
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@sam-strelitz Firstly welcome to the UBports Forum. As we have a wide range of members and ages using the Forum we try to keep everything family friendly so if you could please avoid the use of swear words it would be much appreciated. Thanks
https://ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct
Edit: I have slighty edited your post to reflect the above. Thanks.
