Bullseye - Android emulator

[trister]

Anyone tried setting up any android emulator in Bullseye DebianDog?
I want to be able to run android apps in my PC. Memu in windows 10 works very well. I tried to find a similar solution in linux but couldn't.

I tried Anbox and Waydroid. They both did not start.
Anbox must be setup with snapd but I couldn't set it up.
{Abandoned} :Waydroid (I think) needs to exit-X and reenter with a session with waydroid UI instead of openbox or JWM. I haven't managed to do that.

I also tried Memu with wine but it crashes.

Anyone heard of any Appimage with an android emulator?

{edit}
I found this https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=2041&p=2
I guess Wayland won't work with openbox...
{/edit}

[dancytron]

I tried to set up Anbox and failed. It was long enough ago it was on the old forum.

[trister]

Another approach...

Is it possible to add a minimal GNOME as a 3rd desktop/window manager in Bullseye Dog (preferable via squashfs) so it could be used only to run a wayland session .
It will only be used to run the android emulator - nothing else.

I'm trying to avoid using windows for android and the possibility to add "android support" to debiandog will be extremely useful for educational/school-lab purposes.

{edit}Did an apt2sfs-fullinst gnome.squashfs but then I try to login (using slim) it says "could not execute login command" {/edit}

[dancytron]

This might get you a head start on what didn't work a couple of years ago.

viewtopic.php?p=34242#p34242

[trister]

This might get you a head start on what didn't work a couple of years ago.

viewtopic.php?p=34242#p34242

Thanks dancytron.
I read the posts.
I installed both anbox and snapd from synaptic. Then I installed again anbox from snap.
I managed to have the anbox service run but the main "emulator" window didin't open and didn't gave any error messages.
I will experiment some more when I find time.

[trister]

I didn't manage to find a solution in linux...
I ended up using MEMU in windows which does an incredible job ( even if it is full of ads)..

[bigpuppyfan]

Don't know how this would work on a dog, but I was able to make it work in puppy (fossapup64)
http://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=2517

If you have systemd, then you probably won't need step 9. It could work directly after getting the snap as described in step 5/6, or you might need some/all of the remaining steps

Also, instead of step 5/6, you could try to download anbox from the repo in terminal, if this is an option for a dog (pkg get anbox) or whatever would be equivalent (apt)