A lead software engineer at Ubuntu-maker Canonical has released a tool to run Android apps on Linux desktops without using emulators.

A year and a half in the making, this "Android in a box" software allows you to run Android apps on Linux just as if they were native Linux apps. Linux is all grown up.

Want to run Android apps on a PC? Developers have been offering emulators like BlueStacks and Genymotion for years. But for the most part those applications set up a virtual machine that isolates your ...

The ability to run Android apps natively in a Linux desktop environment is a step closer to realization, thanks to Anbox, a new open source project. Simon Fels, who is the lead software engineer at ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: Yes, you can install Snap packages in Fedora, and System76 isn’t giving up on Ubuntu Android rules the roost when it comes to mobile operating systems, it has the ...

But most Android apps are optimized for smartphones. Linux apps? Not so much. So it’s nice to know that you might be able to run some Android apps on Linux phones thanks to a tool called Anbox.

Android apps being run natively on a laptop or desktop has historically been strictly in the purview of Chrome OS, but a project called Anbox is looking to change all that by piggybacking off of the ...

Snap Package Manager and can be installed by running the following command. This time, I am using Anbox on Ubuntu 20.04. [code] sudo snap install --devmode --beta anbox [/ code] When the installation ...

Anbox is a new project, currently in the Alpha stage, which aims to run apps alongside your normal desktop applications - as long as you use Linux.

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Anbox Cloud, a new platform that allows enterprises to run Android in the cloud.

Ubuntu developer Canonical Ltd. is pushing harder into Android application development with today’s launch of its Anbox Cloud Appliance on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Marketplace. The Anbox Cloud ...