Anbox

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 (2017-04-11)
Repository github.com/anbox/anbox
Operating system Linux
Platform x86-64, ARM
Type Compatibility layer
License GNU GPL v3[1]

Anbox is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow mobile applications and mobile games developed for Android to run on GNU/Linux distributions.

It executes the Android runtime environment by using LXC (Linux Containers), recreating the directory structure of Android as a mountable loop image, whilst using the native Linux kernel to execute applications.

See also

  • WINE - A Windows compatibility layer for UNIX-based systems.

References

  1. "anbox/anbox". GitHub.
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