Android virtualization proliferates with various emulators for Windows, among them Bluestacks, Genymotion, Andy, Nox and MEmu, among others, all of them with several things in common. For example, the limited integration with the system or that applications can not be run as windows.
For Linux users, it may be just the emulators for Android, but projects like Anbox promise to integrate Google’s operating system to run applications as if they were native programs.
In other words, Anbox is not another Android emulator, because it leverages the multi-window feature of Android 7.0 Nougat to run applications in an isolated Linux subsystem. The user must grant root permissions to install kernel modules that you can operate.
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For now the only way to install applications is doing via ADB commands, since it does not include a download store. However, its creators promise to facilitate the installation of applications in the future.
Anbox is a project of code open in alpha phase, so it could be very unstable. It is compatible with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS onwards and it can be downloaded as a Snap package or by using the command sudo install snap – classic anbox-installer & & anbox-installer.
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