Development testers for Anbox

[TartanSpartan]

@joe I agree. I would like to draw everyone's attention to this issue, and as I say, we need a way to start from fresh with Anbox without having to reinstall Ubuntu Touch. This is especially important for when Anbox is entirely stable and becomes a part of the system image for a future UT OTA.

https://github.com/ubports/anbox/issues/24

Sister issue regarding the importance of being warned or even blocked from installing problematic apps, as desktop snap-based Anbox implementations already do:

https://github.com/ubports/anbox/issues/25

I'm also wondering if Anbox can be destabilised if users try to install APKs beyond a certain storage level? Like, if we install several apps which are each ~100MB, and this is from a starting point of say 1.5GB free storage space left, is there a point at which things start to break? And I mean before running to to 0MB left.

[te-online]

@gb I had to enlarge the system partition on my Nexus 5 to install everything, if I remember correctly. Maybe that's your issue? I think I followed this script https://github.com/plasma-mobile/plasma-phone-dev-setup/blob/master/usr/bin/resize-root-partition with minor adjustments, but caution I don't remember since it's been a while – do it on your own risk

[pawlinski]

@padraic said in Development testers for Anbox:

anyone successfully get frieza working? I tried but am told that

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool install
Anbox kernel is not installed! Please flash this first!

Pretty sure I went through the procedures correctly but maybe I missed something. If I don't hear back from anyone I'll try again in a couple of days and open an issue if it still doesn't work.

I have the same problem

[pawlinski]

@gb

@gb said in Development testers for Anbox:

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?

You can try (it has helped me):

sudo mount -o rw,remount /

sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0

sudo apt update

sudo apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch

sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

sudo mount -o r,remount /

[honigwald]

@pawlinski I'm having the same issue. Installation was successful after cleaning the cache several times. but when I try to install anbox-tools I get the same error as @padraic .

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
Kernel: NOT OK
System: NOT FOUND
Enabled: NO
Running: NO

[gmelchett]

@honigwald What does sudo anbox-tool status say? On my Nexus 5, sudo vs no sudo shows different status.

[honigwald]

@gmelchett Hi. This is the Output I get.

Until now, I've resized /dev/loop0 to 3GB and reinstalled everything without success.

Btw.: I'm using BQ M10 FHD

[ursfan]

@pawlinski Have you installed the boot.img for frieza with fastboot?

[Ingo]

Just tried anbox for the first time on my Fairphone 2. Installed a few apps (pulling APKs from my android device using this description).

As expected, my bike sharing app doesn't work as it uses google services.
But spotify works

[pawlinski]

@ursfan Yes.

[Yougo]

Hi, has anyone tried to install anbox on a bq M10 HD yet?

i have , but anbox-tool is telling me i need to flash the kernel, but i did that?!

i followed instructions from here: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

might there be some step missing? or is the anbox-boot-cooler.img not functional?

[arubislander]

@yougo: Just stating the obvious, but it is a mistake that I made initially when trying anbox on my M10FHD: Did you use the correct name for the boot partition when flashing the boot image (boot instead of bootimg)?

[marc_aurel]

Exciting progress. I sucessfully installed Anbox on my FP2. For installing additional apks; I tried to install adb android-tools-adb:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo apt install android-tools-adb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
    android-tools-adb
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 108 not upgraded.
Need to get 64.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 152 kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

This is confusing, because the system info says, that there is more than 23 GB free space on my FP2.

Some idea to resolve this issue?

[Ingo]

Using pawlinskis approach from https://forums.ubports.com/post/14023

sudo mount -o rw,remount /
sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt
sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0
sudo apt update
sudo apt install android-tools-adb
sudo mount -o ro,remount /

The system image has just 2 GB and the commands above free some of that space. The 23 GB free storage you mentioned is the part of the storage reserved for user data.

[haveaniceday]

@honigwald I have the same problem. BQ Aquaris FHD (frieza).
Flashed the the kernel as shown at docs.ubports.com, but anbox-tool status says:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
Kernel: NOT OK
System: NOT FOUND
Enabled: NO
Running: NO

Prior to installing I grew the ubuntu.img / system.img to have enough space for apt on /.
Somehow the kernel does not get installed... Anyone has solved this?

Maybe this is relevant: I bought the Android version of the tablet - then installed UBports UT. Maybe this changes the boot partition / image?

[haveaniceday]

@arubislander So did I. Maybe boot is incorrect?

[haveaniceday]

I just used ubports-installer to flash 16.04/rc onto the frieza, then resized the partition, then installed anbox using the doc.ubports.com tutorial. No success
@mariogrip How did you do it?

[Johanno]

Hi,
I've tried it on BQ m10 FHD and it does not seem to work.
I've flashed the Kernel and installed anbox-tool but i can't install it, because it says the Kernel isn't installed.

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool install
Anbox kernel is not installed! Please flash this first!

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
Kernel: NOT OK
System: NOT FOUND
Enabled: NO
Running: NO

I tried reflashing it a couple of times, without success.

[delijati]

Can someone point me to the used kernel source for bacon anbox. The one in github seams not to have the "anbox" changes.

[Ingo]

Maybe this is useful feedback

These are the apps that work for me with anbox on Fairphone 2

• CatLog
• Onleihe
• Spotify
• Threema (Polling instead of Push notifications)
• WhatsApp (probably also polling)
• my banking app

But please take note: I haven't tested those in depth and am not using them on my daily driver, so maybe some problems went unnoticed so far.

What didn't work

• AdAway (needs root)
• Bücherhallen (doesn't run without gapps; managing wish list works)
• car2go (doesn't run without gapps)
• DB Navigator (crashes immediately on start)
• Drive Now (doesn't run without gapps)
• Firefox (looks as if it works, but web pages are rendered entirely black)
• iButtons (simply doesn't start)
• Real Drum (simply doesn't start)
• Stadtrad (doesn't run without gapps)
• vlc (upper third of screen remains black, the app window seems shifted down and lower part is not visible)