Development testers for Anbox

tomoqv · 27 Sept 2018, 13:00

@wgarcia We have an identification app used for authentication purposes with banks and authorities, which doesn't do anything else than asking you to punch in your 6-digit pin. It still asks for Google services to run - crazy!

A Former User · 27 Sept 2018, 16:03

There is mebay an option Gobalt some guy that was working on solution for BlackBerry when the where support Android apps make a tool to remove Google Play Services from a apk, i have try that back to that time and it worked for me, but you need Windows to run the app, so i can not test it now.
The name of the application is PS_Patcher-1.6.zip
But for the guy's who like to test it you can download it here:

https://www.mycloud.ch/s/#S861C2793C3E8590447FCEBAD03F77B01E6FF267D43D5310846898FDFF816FF8

joe · 28 Sept 2018, 04:04

@stefano said in Development testers for Anbox:

@joe sudo apt remove anbox-tool
sudo apt purge anbox-tool
???
Flash it over with Ubports installer without wipe?

FYI, none of those were able to remove anbox. I guess it needs to be wiped completely?

Stefano · 28 Sept 2018, 07:23

@joe Yes, I have tried that as well. The placeholders of Android apps stayed on Home screen, but all the files were gone. Ended up restoring the saved TWRP backup.

Tonoxis · 29 Sept 2018, 18:35

You may be able to work around the Google Play services requirement by installing microG, but I'm not sure if the Anbox image has signature checking patched out. So you may need a tool that will do signature check patching to enable it to be used in place of Google Play.

rocky58 · 29 Sept 2018, 21:04

If I try to add an account nothing happens... any ideas?

Tonoxis · 30 Sept 2018, 06:48

@wgarcia that JAR file (com.google.android.maps.jar) and any other accompanying JARs should be put in /system/framework. Not sure if the Anbox system image is writable though

arubislander · 30 Sept 2018, 21:11

For anyone having uninstalled anbox after testing it, but stuck with the all the non functional android application icons on the launcher. These can be removed by opening a terminal on the device and issuing the command:

$ rm .local/share/applications/anbox-*

gb · 1 Oct 2018, 00:05

Hi,

I´m testing it in M10 FHD (frieza).
I just installed ubports from scratch (16.04 dev) and try the instructions post by Marius.

Doing "sudo apt-get upgrade", I´m facing:
"E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/."

How can this be possible? I just installed the system and there is no space left?
Do I have to install the hole thing into a Libertine container?

tomoqv · 1 Oct 2018, 14:32

I tried the Play Services Patcher that @Xray2000 posted above with one apk so far, but it couldn't be patched for some unknown reason. It went through the analyze process fine and suggested the patch, which then failed.

Did anyone else try?

tomoqv · 1 Oct 2018, 14:36

I noticed that Aptoide is installed by default with UT Anbox. Is it safe to use? Somebody on the Crackberry forum wrote:
"I would avoid aptoide like the plague btw. Tons of pirated and dubious apps."

tomoqv · 2 Oct 2018, 08:34

After further testing of anbox and several different apps I have found that some apps that claim that they require Google Play Services run anyway. Also, some apps that don't rely on Google services run, but are unable to detect the wifi connection in UT. To turn on wifi in the android settings doesn't work, as it reverts back to "off" every time.

arubislander · 2 Oct 2018, 16:46

@tomoqv I also faced the issue of not detecting wifi with one or two apps. one of them was the kodi remote yaste. It would think it is offline, so it would not autodetect my kodi box. But if I entered the ip address manually it would connect. So it seems only wifi detection is a problem, wifi access works fine.

tomoqv · 2 Oct 2018, 17:58

@arubislander Yeah, really strange. Unfortunately e.g. the IKEA Tradfri app doesn't let me enter an IP address manually.

rexio8 · 6 Oct 2018, 10:55

Could you compile a kernel with the needed modules for flo/deb devices (nexus 7 2013)?

ursfan · 6 Oct 2018, 17:05

Hello, currently I installed Ubuntu Touch 16.04 on OPO and Hammerhead without problems. I installed some android apps as well. But I have an app which can be controlled by the navigation buttons of android phones only, which I found no way to enable on ubuntu touch/anbox yet. I tried some apps which provide a software navigation bar from apkcure.com. But even if one of this is enabled in anbox configuration menu its not overlayed on the screen to that app. Is there a way to solve this?

Osndok · 6 Oct 2018, 21:48

If I could add anything to this discussion it would be:

there should probably be a step-zero (update to xenial/16.04)
there is an unfortunate spelling error in the first sentence regarding what we need... @mariogrip ...
I wonder if "microG" would benefit us, as they have (to my understanding) a pretty complete open source google play services re-implementation, and only requires a minor kernel patch (to spoof google's SSL certificate); and it is supposedly far more trim and performant than the true-google variant

advocatux · 7 Oct 2018, 06:43

@osndok fixed the spelling error. Also TIL a new English word XD

rocky58 · 7 Oct 2018, 07:41

How can I add a Google account in Anbox?

ursfan · 7 Oct 2018, 10:10

@osndok
Have you tried installing it ? There is a thread 'root permission' for apps #118' on the Anbox github site which describes installing opengapps on the desktop version of Anbox. Maybe it works with microg the same on Ubuntu Touch?