Note: With the latest 1.23.0 release, the Anbox Cloud documentation is moved to https://documentation.ubuntu.com/anbox-cloud/en/latest/. Hence, the information in this discourse post may be obsolete. The documentation posts on discourse will be unlisted and archived shortly.
Discourse will still be used for user engagement and release announcements.
In Anbox Cloud, addons can be used to customise the images used for the instances. See Addons and Addon manifest to learn about addons in detail.
If this is your first time creating an addon, follow the Create an addon tutorial to learn how to write a simple addon.
You can use addons to, for example:
- Enable SSH access for automation tools (see Create an addon)
- Set up user-specific data when starting an application (see How to restore data)
- Install additional tools in the instance (see Example: Install tools)
- Back up data when the instance is stopping (see Example: Back up data)
- Configure the Android system before running the application (see Example: Customise Android)
- Provide support for other platforms (see Example: Emulate platforms)
If you have used addons before Anbox Cloud 1.12, see the migration guide to update your addons to use the new hooks.