Oct 31, 2018; There are many reasons people would want to run Android on their PC, the most popular being the ability to run Android games and social applications on their Windows PC. Although there are various projects that should allow you to run Android as an application on Linux or Windows natively on an x86 system, either as a virtual. Official SDK. The official Android SDK (software development kit) is the best way to emulate Android on Linux Ubuntu. While there are many other emulators out there: some of them are very limited feature sets, some of them are paid, and some of them don’t even run.
Ever since Canonical abandoned the development of Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system, UBports community has been taking care of the project. The community has been taking feedback from the users and polishing the user experience.In a new development, to attract more users and provide a better experience, UBports has announced the inauguration of Project Anbox (short for Android-in-a-Box). Anbox will be a feature on Ubuntu Touch for running Android apps as per the need of the users. During the next few weeks, UBports will release a pre-alpha version of Anbox and provide setup instructions.
For those who don’t know, Anbox ensures that one can run Android apps on a Linux distro using a container-based approach for maximum security and performance. This approach needs lesser resources than emulating complete Android kernel.
This approach makes sense as there are tons of apps that aren’t available on Ubuntu Touch platform. Instead of trying something new to lure app developers to write apps for Ubuntu Touch platform, adding the support for Android apps is a better option, as per the announcement post.
Anbox is already available in pre-alpha stage for Ubuntu desktop and it’ll be soon added as an optional feature to Ubuntu Touch.
Things are looking pretty exciting when it comes to the development of Linux mobile operating systems and Android alternatives. In recent months, we’ve read about postmarketOS, Librem 5 smartphone, eelo, etc., and it looks like 2018 is going to be pretty exciting in this regard.
What are your thoughts? Will 2018 give us a solid Android-alternative?
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