Development testers for Anbox

chrisse · 7 Mar 2020, 09:50

@ricardo65 It may be too late now, but I had the same issue and the video posted by a member of the forum helped me solve it.

@HendriXXX said in Series of my Ubuntu Touch related videos:
New video of Anbox install.. Because of fixed "wifi killer bug", installation is much easier and faster.
https://youtu.be/dOfVTp1XtX4

FBrain · 16 Apr 2020, 11:58

@mariogrip
But can Anbox error be the lack of video and audio playback in all android applications? And the fact that I use Anbox on the OnePlus 3t device.

gischpelino · 9 May 2020, 10:27

Would you be so kind and add
oneplus3t: "android-armhf-64binder"
to https://cdimage.ubports.com/anbox-images/devices.json.
It will work for the oneplus3t too, if this entry is in the .json file. The devices are very similar. I have tested it with a modified anbox-tool (changed the .json url in anbox-tool to a http server of mine and used a modified devices.json).

rom4nb · 28 May 2020, 13:59

Hello together, I've tried Anbox now after installing UT with OTA-12 (stable channel) on my FP2.

To deal with the battery drain, here is an Explanation how to set up an "Anbox-Toggle" button for disabling/enabling Anbox with an easy button (in german, but the script itself could help anyone): https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch/Anbox/#Automatisches-Umschalten-per-Icon

I've tried several apps.

Conversations (F-Droid): starts, but I have not set up an XMPP account
Dir (F-Droid): seems to work
DB Navigator (APK extracted via adb fromAndroid Smartphone): the latest version from Google Play crashes while starting up. A very old version of the app, which I am using on an old Android 4.0 Smartphone, starts up. But I cannot load online tickets (app crashes). I can also not look for Transport Connections because there is no Dropdown menu Opening to select a Train Station. So unfortunately, it is not usable at all.
KVV.ticket (APK extracted via adb fromAndroid Smartphone): it's an very "old style" Android app and it works
F-Droid (F-Droid Webpage): works
Öffi (F-Droid): Looking for Transport Connection works

Generally, the apps don't start up always, even when Anbox is definetively enabled. I have to try various times and sometime even reboot the phone. The apps in Anbox are all very slow, especially the touchscreen responds slow and sometimes I can hardly touch a button etc. Often, Anbox is just crashing for me, once also Lomiri crashed while I was using Annox.

As a result, unfortunately I would say that Anbox is still not for "productive daily driver use" and I'll say that realistically you still have to stick to the (web-based) UT apps for serious usage on a UT device. This is a pitty, because especially for public Transport many tickets can only be bought via iOS/Android mobile app.

matteo · 28 May 2020, 17:11

Hi, I think one of the script creator wrote a post also on this Forum on the same subject. I'm referring to this if it's of any help for you or other interested people, at least it's in english. I'd like to help with Anbox myself, but I'm not competent enough, sorry to say.

rocket2nfinity · 5 Jun 2020, 00:19

I have an interesting problem - running Anbox on a Nexus 5. Fdroid can access the internet and install apps, but my android apps cannot. I've searched the forum and see the same question asked several times, but no answer. So hoping someone knows how to fix this?

mubeen_94 · 26 Jul 2020, 16:04

Is there a way to get Anbox up and running on Nexus 7 2013 (deb)?

gimait · 12 Aug 2020, 03:57

Hi! Does someone know how to build anbox from source and set it up in a mobile device?

I would like to do some development on anbox for ubports, but I am struggling with making my builds work. I am using a Nexus 5 to test, which I managed to get up and running with the current release version of anbox in the repositories via apt.

So far I managed to compile the code following the steps on this thread, but I unfortunately didn't manage to get it up and running. Any ideas of what can I try? Do you know how to get the debug logs out of this anbox version? (All the info I found about that was regarding the snap version of anbox)

gnugeek · 11 Sept 2020, 08:16

@gischpelino
had a quick look and nothing was jumping out so,
Just out of interest what did you alter? I'd love to use this on my OnePlus3t.
I have a op3t also and would love this feature.

Many thanks

Ricardo23 · 30 Jul 2024, 21:59

Hello, I installed Ubuntu Touch 16.04 on my OnePlus One and Nexus 5 and got some Android apps running . However, I need navigation buttons for one app, but I can't enable them on Ubuntu Touch/Anbox. I tried using software navigation bar apps, but they don't show up.
Is there a way to solve this?

arubislander · 31 Jul 2024, 05:06

@Ricardo23 Both Ubuntu Touch 16.04 and Anbox are no longer in active development and way past their support date.