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# Anbox
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Anbox is container based approach to boot a full Android system.
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## Overview
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Anbox uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a
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full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on
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any platform.
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The container itself does not run as root but as a unprivileged user.
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It just need to be able to perform a few operations to setup a
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container like spawning up new namespaces, chroot'ing to a rootfs etc.
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Android inside the container has no direct access to any hardware. All
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hardware access is going through the anbox daemon. We're reusing what
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Android has implemented for the Qemu based emulator. The Android system
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inside the container uses different pipes to communicate with the host
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system and sends all hardware access commands through these. OpenGL
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rendering is provided through this.
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For more details have a look at the following documentation pages:
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* Android Hardware OpenGLES emulation design overview
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(https://goo.gl/O2Yi6x)
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* Android Qemu fast pipes (https://goo.gl/jl4GeS)
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* The Android "qemud" multiplexing daemon (https://goo.gl/DeYa5J)
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* Android Qemud services (https://goo.gl/W8Lx6t)
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## Copyright and Licensing
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Anbox reuses code from other projects like the Android Qemu emulator
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or bubblewrap (https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap). These
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projects are available in the external/ subdirectory with the
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licensing terms included.
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The anbox source itself (in src/) is licensed under the terms of
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the GPLv3 license:
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Copyright (C) 2016 Simon Fels <morphis@gravedo.de>
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, as published
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by the Free Software Foundation.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranties of
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MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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