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Dear all,
The participatory funding campaign is coming to an end. First of all, we would like to warmly thank all donors for their support. We have raised the unimaginable sum of 7'120 Euros.
This amount allowed us to pay a qualified developer, Erfan, who did a fantastic job on the creation of "Anbox-Halium".
Erfan will continue to work and develop the project until it is usable by Ubuntu Touch users on a daily basis. We hope to have a viable version by the end of the year.Future updates of the project will be published here on the UBports Foundation forum:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5907/open-ubuntu-touch-to-all-android-applications/56We are happy to have been able to contribute to this project and warmly thank Erfan and the community members who helped him.
The GoFundMe campaign (https://gofund.me/acb31504) will be taken offline on 14 June 2021. The remaining funds will be donated to Erfan to continue his work.
We are confident that this achievement will be a big step forward in the popularity of Ubuntu Touch. Indeed, many potential users are looking forward to being able to use their Android applications in Ubuntu Touch in an efficient way.
See you soon for more exciting news!
Rudi & Steve
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@stanwood Once more a big thank you to all involved in this project and it's eventual success.
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Dear all,
A new fundraising site for the "Anbox-Halium" project for Ubuntu Touch has been activated: https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox
This one replaces the GoFundMe campaign https://gofund.me/acb31504
The goal is to raise 5'000 Euros in provisions for future development work. This will be in addition of the 7'175 Euros raised on GoFundMe
We are happy to continue to support Anbox in order to finally allow decent use of Android applications in the Ubuntu Touch ecosystem.
Frequent updates will be posted here.
Many thanks for your support!
Rudi and Steve
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@stanwood said in Open Ubuntu Touch to all Android applications !:
eventually
Clarification : the meaning of the word 'eventually' may seem ambiguous outside the context or for french UT users. This word means FINALITY, ULTIMATE GOAL for me here. Isn't it ?
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@domubpkm Indeed, but to avoid confusion I changed the word!
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@stanwood ok. The meaning is 'ultimately'.
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Dear all,
We're pleased to provide you a fresh update on the latest Anbox developments, that have been achieved last week:
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Backported dmabuf from upstream mir to ubports mir in order to fix anbox display on pinephone (and other mainline devices with ubports)
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Switched from qtwayland to native wayland
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Prevented anbox from sleep and lock state
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Added x86 support and lxc version >2 to scripts
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Merged microg patches
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Added mouse and keyboard support to wayland
Thank you for your support (and patience). We also thank (one more time) Erfan for his great work!
Continue to support Anbox project development: https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox
See you soon for the next update!
Rudi and Steve
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Micro G ? Did I read that right? Good news.
Question: as it stands, is this new anbox a big energy consumer or not?
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@domubpkm Yes indeed MicroG will works just fine, no it dont eat that mutch battery as before it would use battery that's normoly....
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I have a question, maybe farfetched
, that comes to my mind : (the new) anbox is based on android 9 or 10 or 11 ? And must be updated according to the evolutions of android to adapt to the last versions of the app ? -
@domubpkm LineageOS 17 based on Android 10 is the version AFAIK used in the new Anbox. This should be sufficent for a while, as security updates for that will be provided for quite some time.
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@povoq yes, it was written : april 28, 2021 and i had zapped..
@Xray2000 said : '' We are very excited to announce that a primitive Anbox container has newly been built based on LineageOS 17 (Android 10)'' -
Is there a current version which is easy to install and test?
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@invy It's not yet ready for alpha testings, but work is running well.
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@domubpkm Anbox would be updated to newer Android...when it is needed...
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Dear all,
Here are the latest Anbox developments over the past 7 days:
- Cleanups on display driver and updates
- Fix early unity8 crashes on first launch
- Fixed scaling on plasma and gnome
- Fixed media on x86
Work is still going on, Thanks to Erfan, our "in-house" developer!
Are you also interested to get a reliable solution to run your Android apps in Ubuntu Touch? Please continue to support this project that could NOT happened without YOU!
https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox
See you soon for the next update!
Rudi and Steve
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Are you all working with X86 Anbox team? Wondering if the wonderful work you are doing here will translate to X86 devices as well?
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@rocket2nfinity Indeed we are working for UT and also for X86 devices...
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Dear all,
We're happy to provide you the latest Anbox-Halium developments, that have been achieved the latest 14 days:
. Initial support for multi windows
. Create gbinder python binding lib
. Fix browser into Anbox
The next large work will be to improve Anbox server. Erfan is already working on this stuff.
One more time, thank you very much for your support and Erfan's involvement!
Thank you for donate and share our fundraising campaign: https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox
See you soon for a next exciting statement!
Cheers, Rudi and Steve
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Thanks again to everyone for the hard work. I am a big supporter of this work, but am a bit lost: the recent work seems to be focused around multi-window, etc. for desktop, which I would think is 2nd level priority over getting apps to work well "full screen" for phones. Is it all needing to be done at the same time, or can enough polish be made for phone users first, then those testers and feedback can inform desktop work as a 2nd stage? Maybe phone use is already polished enough, but I have thought it isn't ready to test yet?
