That’s because Anbox is designed to run on GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Fedora, using the same Linux kernel for both the host operating system and for Android.

When you first install Anbox, you’ll have a few basic Android apps such as the Calculator, Contacts, email, Gallery, and Files apps. But you can set up adb to install Android apps from a Linux ...

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 ...

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

Unlike other solutions such as BlueStacks and Genymotion, Anbox allows users to run Android apps on a PC natively, as if they were desktop applications and without the need for any emulation.

While Canonical boasts of how Anbox Cloud runs on Canonical's infrastructure and Ubuntu, the real enabler here is Anbox. The open source software is one of the few existing projects that allow ...

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 ...