Running an Android app

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Fri Aug 23 15:56:48 UTC 2019


On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:19:22 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I'm trying to run an Android app on 11.3/amd64.
> 
> First thing I tried was to install Android-x86 in VirtualBox: alas, it 
> boots, but as soon as it should switch to graphical mode, it gets stuck 
> with a black screen.
> Anyone succeded here?
> 
> Any other way to run an Android app?

	Linux has anbox which runs Android directly on the linux kernel with
abstracted hardware drivers in LXC wrapping, I don't know if anyone has
tried porting it to FreeBSD - obviously jails would have to replace LXC but
I've no idea if the linux ABI support is good enough.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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