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

Dear all,

After the Great unexpected success of our fundraising campaign to allow the creation of this project, it is time for us to put an end to this support drive.

Indeed, on the one hand the amount collected (8942 Euros) is sufficient to allow us to finish the development of WayDroid, and on the other hand the taxes, fees and campaign emoluments make it unprofitable to continue.

For this reason, we inform you that we are leaving the management of this project. The dedicated web page has been closed.

We would like to thank every donor for their indispensable support.
We are happy to have made this event possible and it is with a touch of emotion that we are stepping down...

The work continues.... As today Erfan is taking over the operational management of the program, and he will be the point person for your questions.
We invite you to join the official Telegram group of the project: https://t.me/anbox_halium
and we would be delighted if you would come and provide us with regular updates on the progress of WayDroid.

Once again, thank you for your trust and support.

Goodbye and see you soon!

Rudi and Steve

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/56

We 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

Dear all, we are pleased to announce that since today, Anbox for Ubuntu Touch is able to run on desktop mode.

A warm thanks to Erfan who has achieved a new amazing step on the development of Anbox.

As you know, the task is substantial, and much work remains to be done.

We will come back here regularly to provide you with news on the progress of the work.

Stay tune and keep updated: https://gofund.me/acb31504

Dear all,

Many of you are waiting for the latest developments this week:

The LXC Anbox container is now created. The debugging tasks as well as the activation of the sensors are in progress. These small adjustments are actually a long part of the work.

A next phase will be the creation of the kernel for each device (long road), which could potentially be integrated into the Ubuntu Touch root and thus distributed through OTAs.

From everyone involved in this project: Thank you for your support.

We look forward to providing you with further updates.

Stay with us: https://gofund.me/acb31504

Dear everyone,

Here's a fresh new update:

We are pleased to announce that our developer now has a fully working device. It's a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, which she received from a member of this community right here! (Thank you @mardy )

As for the Vollaphone, it has been returned to the sender for legal customs reasons. Nevertheless, a new shipment will be sent to the developer's business address.

Anyway, work can now begin in earnest!

We are proud and happy to have raised over 3'000 Euros in donations at this stage. That said, the campaign continues, each participation brings us a little closer to our goal: Enabling decent use of Android applications in the Ubuntu Touch ecosystem.

All details are available here: https://gofund.me/acb31504

See you soon, for some new exciting updates.

Rudi & Steve

Dear all,

We have an exciting update to share with you tonight:

A fresh new article from the press about WayDroid has been released yesterday.

Indeed, Linuxsmartphones.com echoes this project in an article published yesterday:

https://linuxsmartphones.com/waydroid-lets-you-run-android-apps-on-linux-phones-with-smoother-performance-than-anbox/

We are delighted to see that this event has gone beyond the small circle of our community, and is starting generating some interest from independent media.

At the same time, a lot of work is currently underway on the server.

Please continue to support the development of WayDroid by supporting our campaign:

https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox

See you soon for news and updates!

Rudi and Steve

Dear all,

We're pleased to give you some fresh updates on the Anbox-Halium development over the past 2 weeks!

First of all, the name of the project has changed, but the objectives remains more than ever intact:

Anbox- Halium is now called WayDroid, this is to avoid confusion with the "old Anbox" service.
It is a compression of the words "Wayland" and "Android", the system allowing to run a LineageOS container on an Android base in the Wayland environment.
The new naming was chosen via a large community survey.

Also, a few technical improvements have been achieved:

• Make sure anbox-sensord is started anyway
• Use iptables-legacy incase it found
• Provide powervr GPU dependencies

Erfan, helped by a few developers, is continuing to improve the main server.

We are all very excited to test this service. For the more adventurous, a Telegram group is available to guide you through the installation:
https://t.me/anbox_halium

The repos are hosted here:
https://github.com/Anbox-halium

For end users, it is best to wait until a successful installation program is available.
It is also advisable to wait for the publication of some patches from the core team, especially in the wayland environment to avoid a risk of system instability.

Nevertheless, the first feedback from alpha testers is very encouraging!

We take this opportunity to thank Erfan and his contributors for his work as well as the UBports foundation for its encouragement.

Thanks to help us to continuing this great project by supporting our campaign:

https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox

See you soon for more news and updates!

Rudi and Steve

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

Dear all,

We're pleased to provide you a fresh update on the latest Anbox developments, that have been achieved last week:

• Backported dmabuf from upstream mir to ubports mir in order to fix anbox display on pinephone (and other mainline devices with ubports)

• Switched from qtwayland to native wayland

• Prevented anbox from sleep and lock state

• Added x86 support and lxc version >2 to scripts

• Merged microg patches

• 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

@domubpkm I guess it is. I advise you to join the dedicated Telegram group and ask Erfan how you can support him in his work.

Dear all,

After the Great unexpected success of our fundraising campaign to allow the creation of this project, it is time for us to put an end to this support drive.

Indeed, on the one hand the amount collected (8942 Euros) is sufficient to allow us to finish the development of WayDroid, and on the other hand the taxes, fees and campaign emoluments make it unprofitable to continue.

For this reason, we inform you that we are leaving the management of this project. The dedicated web page has been closed.

We would like to thank every donor for their indispensable support.
We are happy to have made this event possible and it is with a touch of emotion that we are stepping down...

The work continues.... As today Erfan is taking over the operational management of the program, and he will be the point person for your questions.
We invite you to join the official Telegram group of the project: https://t.me/anbox_halium
and we would be delighted if you would come and provide us with regular updates on the progress of WayDroid.

Once again, thank you for your trust and support.

Goodbye and see you soon!

Rudi and Steve

@prometheus Is Pixel 3a XL a Halium 9 port?
Because Linphone has not been yet upgraded to arm64 processor devices...

https://gitlab.com/ubports-linphone/linphone-simple/-/issues/49

I tried to compile it myself, but it failed due to some dependencies. So we need to wait until someone would be able to do it I guess.

@suoko Hope it worked for you as well. If yes, I guess we could mark this thread as "Solved"

@kugiigi Thank you. Do you know how to display hided files in the file Manager? Indeed, I can't find .local Directory.

Many thanks beforehand!

Edit: Found it! Second icon on the top from the right => show hided files

I deleted the 2 .desktop files and they do not appear anymore!
Thank you very much for your help!

Dear all,

We have an exciting update to share with you tonight:

A fresh new article from the press about WayDroid has been released yesterday.

Indeed, Linuxsmartphones.com echoes this project in an article published yesterday:

https://linuxsmartphones.com/waydroid-lets-you-run-android-apps-on-linux-phones-with-smoother-performance-than-anbox/

We are delighted to see that this event has gone beyond the small circle of our community, and is starting generating some interest from independent media.

At the same time, a lot of work is currently underway on the server.

Please continue to support the development of WayDroid by supporting our campaign:

https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox

See you soon for news and updates!

Rudi and Steve

The first concrete developments of the implementation of VoLTE technology in Ubuntu Touch have begun. The UBports Foundation has commissioned the German telecom company Sysmocom in order to be able to draw up an informed plan of action.

According to the report received, the Vollaphone could be the first device to benefit from this communication protocol. It could then be extended to other devices.

The report also tells us that this technology is specific to each device/chipset manufacturer (vendor blobs).
So even if this might take some time, the latest news seem to be very promising

Here is the official communication from UBports:

https://ubports.com/fr/blog/ubports-blogs-et-nouvelles-1/post/first-steps-in-volte-support-for-ubuntu-touch-3768

@domubpkm I'm not sure, but a few time ago I did reinstall UT on Vollaphone and let bootstrap partition checked and wipe data unchecked. All data were gone...

@adlinux To not loose your data you have to also uncheck "bootstrap partition”.

Anyway, it's good that you could fix your volume issue.

Dear all,

We're pleased to give you some fresh updates on the Anbox-Halium development over the past 2 weeks!

First of all, the name of the project has changed, but the objectives remains more than ever intact:

Anbox- Halium is now called WayDroid, this is to avoid confusion with the "old Anbox" service.
It is a compression of the words "Wayland" and "Android", the system allowing to run a LineageOS container on an Android base in the Wayland environment.
The new naming was chosen via a large community survey.

Also, a few technical improvements have been achieved:

• Make sure anbox-sensord is started anyway
• Use iptables-legacy incase it found
• Provide powervr GPU dependencies

Erfan, helped by a few developers, is continuing to improve the main server.

We are all very excited to test this service. For the more adventurous, a Telegram group is available to guide you through the installation:
https://t.me/anbox_halium

The repos are hosted here:
https://github.com/Anbox-halium

For end users, it is best to wait until a successful installation program is available.
It is also advisable to wait for the publication of some patches from the core team, especially in the wayland environment to avoid a risk of system instability.

Nevertheless, the first feedback from alpha testers is very encouraging!

We take this opportunity to thank Erfan and his contributors for his work as well as the UBports foundation for its encouragement.

Thanks to help us to continuing this great project by supporting our campaign:

https://www.whydonate.eu/fundraising/anbox

See you soon for more news and updates!

Rudi and Steve