You can set up both Google Play Store and support for ARM applications (through libhoudini) manually for Android in a Box, but it's a quite complicated process. Also, installing ARM applications or games doesn't work by default with Anbox - trying to install ARM apps results in the following error being displayed:įailed to install : Failure To install applications you must download each app APK and install it manually using adb.
Using Anbox, each Android application or game is launched in a separate window, just like system applications, and they behave more or less like regular windows, showing up in the launcher, can be tiled, etc.īy default, Anbox doesn't ship with the Google Play Store or support for ARM applications. Its key features are security, performance, integration and convergence (scales across different form factors), according to its website. It works by running the Android runtime environment in an LXC container, recreating the directory structure of Android as a mountable loop image, while using the native Linux kernel to execute applications. Anbox, or Android in a Box, is a free and open source tool that allows running Android applications on Linux.
