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Open Ubuntu Touch to all Android applications !

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      A Former User @rocket2nfinity
      last edited by 25 Jun 2021, 05:10

      @rocket2nfinity Indeed we are working for UT and also for X86 devices...

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        stanwood
        last edited by 7 Jul 2021, 11:49

        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

        Anbox window manager.png

        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

        Redmi Note 9S Stable
        If God has a computer, it must be a GNU/Linux

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          rik @stanwood
          last edited by 7 Jul 2021, 15:26

          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?

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            marc96
            last edited by marc96 7 Jul 2021, 16:10 7 Jul 2021, 16:10

            Hello all,

            I am very surprised how smoothly the new Anbox works on the video and am really looking forward to testing it myself sometime! Very big thank you for all the hard work.

            I unfortunately don't (yet) understand much about Linux/Ubuntu Touch and the technologies behind it (switched from BlackBerry OS 10 myself, which could also play Android apps, but with better hardware integration), so I wanted to ask if Anbox is expected to work on the Nexus 5 as well?

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              kugiigi @rik
              last edited by 7 Jul 2021, 16:42

              @rik I think having apps in separate windows is also relevant to phones/tablets. As show in previous videoa, a full Lineage system is booted and looking like a virtual machine unlike the old anbox. But with this it's more like the old one which looks and works more integrated into the system.

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                rik @kugiigi
                last edited by rik 7 Jul 2021, 21:43 7 Jul 2021, 21:41

                Erfan posted this reply to my above question on telegram:

                "Hey i was just going to reply your post in forums that noticed you are already in group so if u don't mind i'll answer here

                first of all thank you very much for your support, really appriciated 🙏🙏
                but recently focus was in finalizing application managment in display instead of a full android screen
                for weekly report i just said said multi-windowing but in reality the work behind of it was more for detecting/selecting open apps in screen

                now i'm working on a sever-like tool to glow this pieces together and have something usable for users with proper app managment"

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                  Sam Strelitz @stanwood
                  last edited by 8 Jul 2021, 02:32

                  @stanwood That sounds like a great project! Heck if all Android apps worked, it seems like Ubuntu touch would be a better OS, as it would have all the android stuff running in a Java VM, and then all the native open source stuff, which I assume could be ported, like all the linux stuff should run fine on arm64 with a touchscreen interface, either by adding a touchscreen interface to popular linux apps, or that sorta thing.

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                    Sam Strelitz
                    last edited by Lakotaubp 7 Aug 2021, 08:53 8 Jul 2021, 03:19

                    How are ya'll implementing the android compatibility? Like is it a generic Java VM that runs on ARM64, and you can just use a java vm, or do you need that + specific libraries that might be copyrighted, and then you gotta re-implement those libraries, or is it like a clusterf*** and they did a bunch of weird proprietary s*** and it might be easier to make a tool to let developers recompile their source code for free for a new target?

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                      Lakotaubp @Sam Strelitz
                      last edited by Lakotaubp 7 Aug 2021, 09:13 8 Jul 2021, 05:11

                      @sam-strelitz Firstly welcome to the UBports Forum. As we have a wide range of members and ages using the Forum we try to keep everything family friendly so if you could please avoid the use of swear words it would be much appreciated. Thanks

                      https://ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct

                      Edit: I have slighty edited your post to reflect the above. Thanks.

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                        A Former User @Sam Strelitz
                        last edited by A Former User 7 Aug 2021, 09:34 8 Jul 2021, 09:33

                        @sam-strelitz Anbox make use of the Android drivers and runs into lxc container, you can compaire it with Alien Dalvik on Sailfish OS, but then opensource...

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                          domubpkm
                          last edited by 8 Jul 2021, 10:29

                          Are we far from a testable version on the Volla ?

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                            A Former User @domubpkm
                            last edited by 8 Jul 2021, 14:49

                            @domubpkm Erfan is working on the server then it would be more use able for everyone...

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                              s710 @Guest
                              last edited by 8 Jul 2021, 15:36

                              @xray2000 said in Open Ubuntu Touch to all Android applications !:

                              @domubpkm Erfan is working on the server then it would be more use able for everyone...

                              Can it be installed and tested manually?

                              The instructions you posted earlier in this thread seem to be for the regular anbox version if im not mistaken?

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                                stanwood @s710
                                last edited by 8 Jul 2021, 16:07

                                @s710 Indeed, Anbox-Halium is not yet published...

                                Redmi Note 9S Stable
                                If God has a computer, it must be a GNU/Linux

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                                  A Former User @s710
                                  last edited by A Former User 7 Aug 2021, 16:14 8 Jul 2021, 16:13

                                  I see you are getting impatient which I can also understand... that's why I had a little chat with Erfan, and I can share with you the Anbox group, there you can ask how to test it, and get more help if needed.

                                  The telegram group link: https://t.me/anbox_halium

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                                    arwhet @Guest
                                    last edited by 9 Jul 2021, 04:45

                                    @xray2000

                                    Congratulations on your great project Xray. You might say people are impatient....we have already tried to install Anbox on the Oneplus One 🙂

                                    Could someone please post any details about how to test here also? I don't have the facility to use Telegram unfortunately.

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                                      A Former User @arwhet
                                      last edited by A Former User 7 Sept 2021, 05:33 9 Jul 2021, 05:32

                                      @arwhet Thanks! you can go to this link https://github.com/Anbox-halium/anbox-halium and follow the how to install section...But your kernel need to be patched for this .... otherway it one work...

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                                        arwhet @Guest
                                        last edited by 9 Jul 2021, 11:52

                                        @xray2000 thanks for posting that, I wasn't aware of that page.

                                        If there are any download links for kernels, or guides, posted in the telegram group maybe someone could post them here?

                                        I'm ready to update to the halium release (oneplus one) and and would install a patched kernel for testing anbox.

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                                          A Former User @arwhet
                                          last edited by 9 Jul 2021, 15:24

                                          @arwhet On the github repo there is a section patch kernel into that script you can check what need to be done....as there is no other guide as far i know....

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                                            domubpkm @Guest
                                            last edited by 10 Jul 2021, 19:18

                                            @xray2000 said in Open Ubuntu Touch to all Android applications !:

                                            Erfan is working on the server then it would be more use able for everyone...

                                            In this sentence, you mean a more user (friendly) testable version ? a turnkey version to test ?

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