Anbox

Android emulator for running apps on Linux

App ID:

anbox

automatic-app-scaling

3/5, functional problems are not Mobian specific but Anbox itself

To enable Anbox, you will need to first enable the contrib repo by running sudo sed -i “/main/ s/$/ contrib/” /etc/apt/sources.list and then sudo apt update

Then, sudo apt install anbox adb

Then download a working arm64 Android image, one can be found here: http://alexmitter.org/downloads/anbox/anbox_image_builder_image/android.img

Move android.img to /var/lib/anbox/ (you must create this directory first)

Now you must create three systemd services files:

/etc/systemd/system/dev-binderfs.mount :

[Unit]
Description=binderfs

[Mount]
What=binder
Where=/dev/binderfs
Type=binder

[Install]
WantedBy=anbox-container-manager.service

/etc/systemd/system/anbox-container-manager.service :

[Unit]
Description=Anbox Container Manager
Documentation=man:anbox(1)
After=network.target dev-binderfs.mount
Wants=network.target
Requires=dev-binderfs.mount
ConditionPathExists=/var/lib/anbox/android.img

[Service]
#ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe ashmem_linux
#ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe binder_linux
ExecStartPre=/usr/share/anbox/anbox-bridge.sh start
ExecStart=/usr/bin/anbox container-manager --daemon --privileged --data-path=/var/lib/anbox
ExecStopPost=/usr/share/anbox/anbox-bridge.sh stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

/etc/systemd/user/anbox-session-manager.service :

[Unit]
Description=Anbox Session Manager
Documentation=man:anbox(1)
After=basic.target
Wants=basic.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/anbox session-manager
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

and create /usr/local/sbin/mount_binderfs :

#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -d /dev/binderfs ]; then
        if ! mkdir /dev/binderfs; then
                exit 1
        fi
fi

if ! mountpoint -q /dev/binderfs; then
        mount -t binder binder /dev/binderfs
fi

and sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/sbin/mount_binderfs

Now run:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl restart anbox-container-manager.service && systemctl --user restart anbox-session-manager.service

https://github.com/anbox/anbox

In four steps to the solution:

1. You need to modify /etc/apt/sources.list to include contrib and the source code repository for those packages:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib

2. Then install build dependencies, clone the repo, build and install:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install devscripts
sudo apt build-dep anbox
git clone https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/debs/anbox.git
cd anbox
debuild -b -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../anbox_0.0*.deb

3. On a PC (running a Debian-like OS), install build dependencies and generate the android.img image file:

sudo apt install docker.io squashfs-tools gcc
git clone https://source.puri.sm/sebastian.krzyszkowiak/anbox-image-builder.git
cd anbox-image-builder
./build
./assemble

4. Then, copy the android.img file to /var/lib/anbox/ and add this line to /etc/fstab:

none                                            /dev/binderfs   binder  nofail          0       0

After a reboot you should then be able to start Anbox from the launcher.