Images are not available

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hi keirthana,
I am learning about anbox-cloud but I am having trouble, where I don’t have an android image and I have tried searching on the internet but I can’t find an android image, can you tell me where I can download the official android image from anbox-cloud?

thank you

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Hello @lightning98,

Thank you for reaching out! Anbox Cloud is available with Ubuntu Pro. Depending on whether you are using this for commercial or personal use, you can set up Ubuntu Pro and enable Anbox Cloud.

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Hi Keirthana,

Thank you for your response.

I have already enabled Ubuntu Pro and successfully activated Anbox Cloud on my system. However, I’m currently a bit confused regarding the Android image.

I’ve been trying to find the Android image to run with Anbox Cloud, but couldn’t find it anywhere online or even within the Anbox Cloud management interface.

Could you please help me understand:

  • Where or how can I obtain the official Android image for Anbox Cloud?
  • Is there any command or download link that I need to use?
  • Or do I need to build the image manually?

Appreciate your help on this. :pray:

YB

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Thank you @lightning98 for clarifying! I think I understand your issue now (and also saw your post on the Ask Ubuntu forum.

Could you check what you get as an output when you run amc config show | grep images.auth?

It should show images.auth: true. If this shows false, then I think you might not have enabled Ubuntu Pro the first time you ran through the process. Later, even though you enabled it, the authentication for accessing the images is not set and that could be why the images are not available for you.

If images.auth shows false for you, please try running:

amc config set images.auth bearer:$(sudo cat /var/lib/ubuntu-advantage/private/machine-token.json | jq -r '.resourceTokens[] | select(.type=="anbox-images").token')

Let us know if this helped.

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Hi Keirthana,

You were right — I didn’t enable Ubuntu Pro at first. But after enabling it and running the command again, it worked perfectly, and now the Android image is showing up!

Thank you so much for your support :pray: Really appreciate your help.

YB

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Glad that worked! :slight_smile:

As you explore further, feel free to reach out to us by posting in the user discussion forum. Thank you!

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Hi Keirthana,

Maybe one last question for this case :smile:

Regarding .apk files, is there any official source provided by Ubuntu/Canonical, or should we get them from external/unofficial sources?

And if there are official .apk files available from Ubuntu/Canonical, is there any configuration or customization we can apply? Also, would you mind sharing the official link if it exists?

Thank you again for your continued support!

Best regards,

YB

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Hey YB,

No, Canonical does not provide any official APK files with Anbox Cloud.

Thanks,
Keirthana