Development testers for Anbox

pawlinski · 9 Nov 2018, 21:38

@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 · 26 Oct 2018, 19:58

@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 · 30 Oct 2018, 14:36

@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 · 30 Oct 2018, 17:29

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

honigwald · 30 Oct 2018, 22:44

@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 · 9 Nov 2018, 21:38

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

Ingo · 10 Nov 2018, 20:26

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 · 12 Nov 2018, 12:38

@ursfan Yes.

Yougo · 17 Nov 2018, 10:24

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 · 17 Nov 2018, 20:02

@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 · 24 Nov 2018, 21:38

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 · 25 Nov 2018, 11:55

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 · 30 Nov 2018, 20:14

@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 · 30 Nov 2018, 20:15

@arubislander So did I. Maybe boot is incorrect?

haveaniceday · 30 Nov 2018, 20:43

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 · 30 Nov 2018, 22:14

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 · 3 Dec 2018, 13:00

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

Ingo · 5 Dec 2018, 17:19

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)

rocky58 · 9 Dec 2018, 16:56

@ingo also Telegram works

marc_aurel · 14 Dec 2018, 14:43

@ingo Thanks for your recommendation. The installation did work, but then a system update of UBports has detroyed my Fairphone. No, problem, it is a developer device. I was able to recover my Fairphone and install Anbox abein with the android tools as described on the documentation page: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

I could mange to install FDroid from a download and then Yalp Store within FDroid. Running Yalp Store seems to be to abitious. Yalp Store crashes while logging into the Play Store. So, in general Anbox is working on my Fairphone.

Sometimes the interaction with Android apps is liettle bit tricky because of the missing back navigation button on the system level. Alien Davlik adds a navigation bar with a back button. Maybe this could be an approach for Anbox either. The disadvantage would be a smaller screen.