Anbox issues

aclifton314

SYSTEM
OS: 16.04
Device: Oneplus One (bacon)
Channel: release-candidate

I was able to successfully install and use anbox on the stable channel. I have recently switched to the release-candidate channel and got annbox up and running. However, I did notice a few things:

When I started anbox, there were multiple instances of the default apps (i.e. calculator, calendar, contact, and 4 instances of Files). Does anyone know how to get these default apps to not show up when running anbox?
If I have to remove the default apps (or any apps I pull from my android), where are they installed to verify that adb uninstall has worked?
Finally, how would one go about completely uninstalling everything related to anbox and starting over?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Emphrath

@aclifton314 very interested by the third question since everytime I tried I ended up reinstalling the whole system

hankschwie

@aclifton314

multiple instances: Have a look at https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3939/app-menu-double-entries-w-anbox/ . Restarting Unity8 usually helps, or restarting the device, but there is no way to completely get rid of those duplicates.
You can't remove the default android apps. You could deactivate some calling the android Settings, go to Apps and deactivate those you don't need. I usually deinstall other anbox apps that don't work, or are not needed any more using the default android way via Settings->Apps within Anbox, too.
Installed apps are - at least partly - stored in /home/phablet/anbox-data/data/app, but the whole content of path .../data/... is "invisible", and only accessible as root-user using a ssh or adb shell. You can navigate using cd PATH, and show contents using ls (-la].
Easiest and fastest way to remove anbox is to reflash your device with the current version and channel using the UBports Installer; but don't wipe the user data!

c4pp4

@aclifton314 said in Anbox issues:

When I started anbox, there were multiple instances of the default apps (i.e. calculator, calendar, contact, and 4 instances of Files). Does anyone know how to get these default apps to not show up when running anbox?

If I have to remove the default apps (or any apps I pull from my android), where are they installed to verify that adb uninstall has worked?

Ad 1 To get rid of multiple icons try to refresh the Drawer by pulling down and releasing.

Ad 2 You can remove default packages directly from an android image, see https://forums.ubports.com/post/31776 (skip media_codecs.xml step)
e.g. if you want to remove Contacts and Calendar delete the following dirs:

squashfs-root/system/app/Calendar
squashfs-root/system/priv-app/CalendarProvider
squashfs-root/system/priv-app/Contacts
squashfs-root/system/priv-app/ContactsProvider