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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?
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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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@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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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 screennow 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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@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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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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Edit: I have slighty edited your post to reflect the above. Thanks.
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@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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Are we far from a testable version on the Volla ?
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@domubpkm Erfan is working on the server then it would be more use able for everyone...
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@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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@s710 Indeed, Anbox-Halium is not yet published...
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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@domubpkm Indeed a more testable version let say...
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I've been thinking - I have a spare FP2 on my hands I don't plan on using anytime soon. I understand anbox is now based on treble and won't run on anything under Halium 9. There's a Halium 7 build for FP2. Wouldn't that be a good testing device to try and port anbox to Halium 7 ? What I'm trying to say is I'm willing to send this FP2 to Erfan it this can help the majority of UT users with Halium 7.
