Free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow mobile applications and mobile games
Anbox
Wikipedia application for Android running on Anbox
Original author(s)
Marius Gripsgard, Ricardo Mendoza, Simon Fels, Thomas Voß
Developer(s)
Anbox authors (4)
Initial release
11 April 2017; 7 years ago (2017-04-11)
Repository
github.com/anbox/anbox
Operating system
Linux
Platform
x86-64, ARM, ARM64
Type
Compatibility layer
License
GNU GPL v3[1]
Website
anbox.io
Anbox is a discontinued free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow mobile applications and mobile games developed for Android to run on Linux distributions.[2] Canonical introduced Anbox Cloud, for running Android applications in a cloud environment.[3]
Anbox executes the Android runtime environment by using LXC (Linux Containers), recreating the directory structure of Android as a mountable loop image, while using native Linux kernel to execute applications. It makes use of Linux namespaces through LXC for isolation. Applications do not have any direct hardware access, all accesses are sent through the Anbox daemon.[4]
Anbox was deprecated on February 3, 2023 as it's no longer being actively maintained.[5]
^"anbox/anbox". GitHub. 4 January 2023.
^Lynch, Jim (2017-04-12). "Anbox: Run Android apps in Linux". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
^Lardinois, Frederic (21 January 2020). "Canonical's Anbox Cloud puts Android in the cloud". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
^"anbox/anbox". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
^"Add deprecation notice to README by morphis · Pull Request #2121 · anbox/anbox". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
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