Development testers for Anbox

zx81

@stefano I have tried several times and got no further
It now says something about not having a sandbox installed

Have had to go to work now (work always gets in the way lol) so will have another go tomorrow

Thanks for your help so far

Stefano

@zx81 Yeah, I had that message there as well.
It should be ok, though.
Refresh your Home screen (apps scope ) by dragging down and the Android apps should appear on the screen, or reboot.
You can also verify if its installed by typing in terminal on your phone:

anbox-tool status

zx81

@stefano Nothing showing at the minute , just going through process again

Tonoxis

@mariogrip any information on what we Flo users would need to do to get it running, or do we still need the mainline kernel to be up and running under Halium properly first (I'm down to experiment!!)? I can attempt to whip up a custom kernel as long as I know what patches I'm applying to it! Kinda hoping it would be similar to arale and need the anbox drivers compiled in.

wgarcia

@mihael I installed Whatsapp sucessfully, but when I open it it tells me that the time is wrong. I've adjusted the time in "Settings", but Whatsapp keeps telling me the same, and doesn't go further. Anybody knows how to pass this "Date is incorrect" screen?

mihael

@wgarcia Sorry, I don't know. It didn't do that for me...

wgarcia

@mihael Turns out I had installed an old version of Whatsapp, I installed the current one and now it opens OK.

tomoqv

I have an app that looks for com.google.android.maps at the installation (adb install). I have installed the google maps apk which shows as:
Maps (com.google.android.apps.maps)
when I do anbox-tool app-list
Can I somehow change the package name that appears in that list, and if so, would that satisfy the app looking for it when trying to install?

A Former User

@tomoqv No you can not change package name Android reads this out of the manifest file that is into the apk when installing, when you change this the app will never work again.

tomoqv

So I wonder if there is any google package that carries the name com.google.android.maps?

wgarcia

@tomoqv As far as I know this is the name of a Java library (extension .jar), but I have no idea how libraries are installed in Android, and less in anbox.

tomoqv

@wgarcia It seems to me that many android apps just add the google dependencies by habit, without really needing it. I am looking for a way to trick those apps.

wgarcia

@tomoqv In my case I tried installing an Android app of my municipality to pay for street parking and it asked for this same thing. In this case it makes sense because it needs location, I believe. In any case I don't think GPS will work inside anbox any time soon.

tomoqv

@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

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:

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

joe

@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

@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

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

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

Tonoxis

@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