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.
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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)