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Asked: 2016-05-18 01:53:25 +0800 CST

Is there a Wine equivalent for Android apps? [duplicate]

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As Android is gaining more and more users every day (and Windows losing some), i consider reasonably fair for me to ask: Is there ANY Wine equivalent for Android apps? I'm not asking for native linux support for apk packages, just for a non-emulator like Wine is.

Touch-interface hardware is getting cheaper every day, and Android being king there, is just natural that all programmers keep on rushing into making Android apps. In the last year alone i've seen most famous software getting implemented in Android: Photoshop, Autocad, Revit, Pixlr, etc

I'm not an Android developer, not looking for an android-sdk, just regular user looking to use certain android apps in Ubuntu. Typical example: Autocad and Photoshop - neither one working properly under wine, but having Android variants. I'm hoping that Android being linux, it could be more easy to adapt Android to Ubuntu code, than adapting Windows to Ubuntu code.

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    EDIT December 29, 2018

    I found something named anbox. From their github :

    Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu. In other words: Anbox will let you run Android on your Linux system without the slowness of virtualization.

    Anbox uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.

    The Android inside the container has no direct access to any hardware. All hardware access is going through the anbox daemon on the host. We're reusing what Android implemented within the QEMU-based emulator for OpenGL ES accelerated rendering. The Android system inside the container uses different pipes to communicate with the host system and sends all hardware access commands through these.

    This is interesting. But I haven't tested it yet, but some articles on the net refers to that. You guys may want to take a look. Meanwhile, I'll update this answer later when I've tried them.

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    Original answer below.

    You can either :

    • Run ARChon Runtime for Chrome. It is an android runtime, made for Google Chrome. More info Click here. (You will need to convert APK to archon package with android phone. Also not all apps are compatible. I guarantee a headache, Prepare your paracetamol.)
    • Run android-x86 in a VirtualBox or similar. More information Here. You may hit performance issues because emulated GPU anyway.
    • Use Genymotion. More information here. Basicly something like BlueStacks, but also have multiple device support and most importantly, supports ubuntu. (I can't comment for performance, but in windows, it is great! Also it supports multi touch screens - again on Windows. can't comment on ubuntu.)

    For exactly like wine, where you aren't emulating the whole OS, I think ARChon is the most accurate answer. But I'm pretty sure you will hit too much issues and probably just give up like me.

    We all know Android is based on Linux kernel. But that doesn't mean that's the same thing. Android doesn't use X server like your desktop.

    So AFAIK, there are no solution so far. Sorry.

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  2. The simplest method involves using Genymotion. It is one of several Android emulators that you can install in Linux. When compared to other emulators Before, you install Genymotion, you have to first install Oracle’s VirtualBox. VirtualBox is virtualization software that creates the virtual environment necessary to emulate Android in Linux. To install VirtualBox, download it from Oracle. Next, create an account at the Genymotion website and install the application. The application comes as a .debi file so simply double click it to begin installation. Here's the video in detail..

    https://youtu.be/MHmMDEzsJEY

    copied from : https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-install-Bluestacks-in-Ubuntu

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