Also, make sure you run anbox.appmgr at least once after installing Anbox and before using this script, to avoid running into issues. If you haven't already, install Anbox by following the installation instructions found here. These instructions will obviously not work if Anbox is not already installed on your Linux desktop. Update (February, 2019): The script to install Google Play Store and enable ARM (libhoudini) support for Anbox was updated to automatically download the latest open-gapps, fixing an issue that caused Google Play Store to close immediately after starting in some cases (when the Google Play Store version downloaded by the script was too old). Install Google Play Store and enable ARM applications / games support on Anbox (Android in a Box) Also, some features may not be available in some applications.
Some Android applications and games may not show up in the Google Play Store at all, while others may be available for installation but will not work. To make it easier to install Google Play Store and Google Play Services on Anbox, and get it to support ARM applications and games (using libhoudini), the folks at (linked article is in German) have created a script that automates these tasks.īefore using this, I'd like to make it clear that not all Android applications and games work in Anbox, even after integrating libhoudini for ARM support. 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.
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