Anbox Cloud offers a software stack that runs Android applications in any cloud enabling high-performance streaming of graphics to desktop and mobile client devices.
At its heart, it uses lightweight container technology instead of full virtual machines to achieve higher density and better performance per host while ensuring security and isolation of each container. Depending on the target platform, payload, and desired application performance (e.g. frame rate), more than 100 containers can be run on a single machine.
For containerization of Android, Anbox Cloud uses the well established and secure container hypervisor LXD. LXD is secure by design, scales to a large number of containers and provides advanced resource management for hosted containers.
Also have a look at the official Anbox Cloud website for more information.
What Anbox Cloud offers
Anbox Cloud provides management of an entire cluster of machines running the Anbox Cloud software and maintains a single Android system per container. It is based on powerful and battle proven software from Canonical like LXD or Juju.
It’s core features are:
- Simple and straightforward deployment using Juju on any cloud
- Specialized management service to handle all aspects of the container and application lifecycle while optimizing the cluster for high density, performance and faster container boot times.
- Platform integration tools including a rich SDK to allow integration of existing streaming solutions in the Anbox Cloud platform.
- Support for both x86 and Arm64 hardware
- Integrates with 3rd party solutions for binary translation solutions on Arm64-only hardware.
What’s new in 1.10?
Along with bugfixes and general improvements, Anbox Cloud 1.10 comes with:
- Support for Android 11
- Pinned Package Versions
- Instant Session Handover
- Nvidia Server Optimized GPU Drivers are used by default
- Application Management inside the Anbox Cloud Dashboard
Check the release notes for more details.
Navigation
About
Installation
Operations
Managing Anbox Cloud
- Getting started
- Dashboard
- Images
- Applications
- Addons
- Application Registry
- Containers
- Capacity Planning
- GPU Support
- Logging
- AMS Access
- Container access
- Benchmarking a deployment
- Streaming Android Applications
- LXD Auto Scaling
Using Anbox Cloud
- Container configuration
- Port Android application to Anbox Cloud
- Anbox Streaming SDK
- Application testing
- Virtual Devices
Monitoring
Reference
- AMS HTTP API
- Anbox HTTP API
- Anbox Stream Gateway HTTP API
- Anbox Platform SDK
- AMS SDK API
- AMS Configuration
- Instance Types
- Anbox Platforms
- Prometheus Metrics
Other things
URLs
Mapping table
| Topic | Path |
|---|---|
| Anbox Cloud documentation | /docs |
| Anbox Cloud Overview | /docs/overview |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/anbox-cloud-installation/17835 | /docs/installation |
| Requirements | /docs/installation/installation-requirements |
| Install with Juju | /docs/installation/installation-quickstart |
| Customizing a deployment | /docs/installation/installation-customizing |
| Setting up the Application Registry | /docs/installation/installation-application-registry |
| Upgrading from previous versions | /docs/installation/upgrading-from-previous-versions |
| Adding additional LXD nodes | /docs/installation/adding-additional-lxd-nodes |
| Charm configuration | /docs/installation/charm-configuration |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/registering-a-deployment/17748 | /docs/installation/registering-a-deployment |
| Metrics collection | /docs/installation/metrics-collection |
| High Availability | /docs/installation/high-availability |
| Validation | /docs/installation/validation |
| Getting started with Anbox Cloud | /docs/manage/getting-started |
| Web Dashboard | /docs/manage/web-dashboard |
| Managing LXD nodes | /docs/manage/managing-lxd-nodes |
| Managing images | /docs/manage/managing-images |
| Managing applications | /docs/manage/managing-applications |
| Managing addons | /docs/manage/managing-addons |
| Application Registry | /docs/manage/application-registry |
| Managing containers | /docs/manage/managing-containers |
| Instance Types | /docs/manage/instance-types-reference |
| Capacity Planning | /docs/manage/capacity-planning |
| GPU Support | /docs/manage/gpu-support |
| Managing logs | /docs/manage/managing-logs |
| Managing AMS access | /docs/manage/managing-ams-access |
| Container access | /docs/manage/container-access |
| Benchmarking a deployment | /docs/manage/benchmarking-a-deployment |
| Streaming Android Applications | /docs/manage/streaming-android-applications |
| Container configuration | /docs/usage/usecase-container-configuration |
| Port Android application to Anbox Cloud | /docs/usage/usecase-port-android-application-to-anbox-cloud |
| Anbox Streaming SDK | /docs/usage/usecase-streaming-sdk |
| Application testing | /docs/usage/usecase-application-testing |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/monitoring/17785 | /docs/monitoring/monitoring |
| Monitoring: Installation | /docs/monitoring/monitoring-installation |
| Monitoring: Grafana | /docs/monitoring/monitoring-grafana |
| Monitoring: Nagios | /docs/monitoring/monitoring-nagios |
| AMS Rest API | /docs/reference/ams-rest-api-reference |
| Anbox HTTP API | /docs/reference/anbox-http-api-reference |
| AMS SDK Guide | /docs/reference/ams-sdk-api-reference |
| Anbox Platforms | /docs/reference/anbox-platforms |
| Prometheus metrics | /docs/reference/prometheus-metrics |
| Release notes | /docs/changelog |
| Anbox Cloud SDKs | /docs/sdks |
| Anbox Cloud FAQ | /docs/faq |
| Virtual Devices | /docs/usage/usecase-virtual-devices |
| Release Roadmap | /docs/roadmap |
| AMS Configuration | /docs/ams-configuration |
| Supported Versions | /docs/supported-versions |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lxd-auto-scaling/21351 | /docs/lxd-auto-scaling |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/component-versions/21413 | /docs/component-versions |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/implement-android-native-streaming-client/21833 | /docs/implement-android-native-streaming-client |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/implement-web-based-streaming-client/21835 | /docs/implement-web-based-streaming-client |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/exchange-out-of-band-data/21834 | /docs/exchange-out-of-band-data |
| https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/install-appliance/22681 | /docs/install-appliance |