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Are any of these ones superior in terms of performance, resource utilization, etc? The cloud angle is mildly interesting although in my specific use-case I'd probably just end up paying for a service that can provide access to emulators in the cloud.
Is there more scope to do things like automating inputs etc this way? How would one go about that?
For development work I use the default Android emulator that comes with Android Studio. Are any of these ones superior in terms of performance, resource utilization, etc? The cloud angle is mildly interesting although in my specific use-case I'd probably just end up paying for a service that can provide access to emulators in the cloud. Is there more scope to do things like automating inputs etc this way? How would o…
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Interesting concept but seems to require custom android-specific kernel modules (ashmem, binderfs), which means the android containers aren't very containerized but leak into the host kernel.
All Linux containers leak the host kernel no? The Anbox project relies on the exact same 2 modules: https://docs.anbox.io/userguide/install_kernel_modules.html . While these are "android-specific", they are present in the linux kernel tree, and even come pre-installed in Ubuntu 19.04 (and probably more distros).
Curious in what way?
For development work I use the default Android emulator that comes with Android Studio. Are any of these ones superior in terms of performance, resource utilization, etc? The cloud angle is mildly interesting although in my specific use-case I'd probably just end up paying for a service that can provide access to emulators in the cloud. Is there more scope to do things like automating inputs etc this way? How would o…
Whether it's as reliable as running a VM, is something that'll need to be tested. Personally I got an error when trying to exit out of the shell (and thus was unable to exit), something I've never seen in the VM version of Android.
Will it work on WSL? It can be a good way to run Android on Windows.
Interesting concept but seems to require custom android-specific kernel modules (ashmem, binderfs), which means the android containers aren't very containerized but leak into the host kernel.
All Linux containers leak the host kernel no? The Anbox project relies on the exact same 2 modules: https://docs.anbox.io/userguide/install_kernel_modules.html . While these are "android-specific", they are present in the linux kernel tree, and even come pre-installed in Ubuntu 19.04 (and probably more distros).
How is this accomplished? Is this using Anbox or something similar I don't understand how the Dockerfiles linked here end up running an instance of Android.
See instructions to build it (or pull the published version)
https://github.com/remote-android/redroid-doc/tree/master/an...
Then you can run the Android container
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All Linux containers leak the host kernel no? The Anbox project relies on the exact same 2 modules: https://docs.anbox.io/userguide/install_kernel_modules.html . While these are "android-specific", they are present in the linux kernel tree, and even come pre-installed in Ubuntu 19.04 (and probably more distros).
> All Linux containers leak the host kernel no? Curious in what way?
Running either of
docker run --rm --entrypoint /bin/uname alpine:latest -a
uname -a
[0]: https://embeddedbits.org/introduction-linux-containers/
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All Linux containers leak the host kernel no? The Anbox project relies on the exact same 2 modules: https://docs.anbox.io/userguide/install_kernel_modules.html . While these are "android-specific", they are present in the linux kernel tree, and even come pre-installed in Ubuntu 19.04 (and probably more distros).
Not all linux kernel leak to host. Docker security is way better than nefore. And there also projects like podman and docker unprivileged that don't require any root intraction to set up a kernel