Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Debian. In other words Anbox will let you run Android on your Linux system without the slowness of virtualization. Anbox puts the Android operating system into a container, abstracts hardware access and integrates core system services into a GNU/Linux system. Every Android application will be integrated with your operating system like any other native application.
Learn more about this open-source project from the author.
How to install
The official Anbox installation is not compiled for Debian so it doesn't run in kali-linux. Even though Anbox now supports Debian yet i was still not able to run it after installation. This person who is also a contributor of Anbox, has compiled Anbox from the source for Debian 9 stretch and it is also working in kali.
From his Personal Package Archive, read before install
Install
Install lxc - Linux Containers userspace tools.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install lxc
Install deb packages.
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/zhsj.gpg https://ftp.ustclug.org/~zsj/anbox/zhsj.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://ftp.ustclug.org/~zsj/anbox stretch main" |sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/anbox.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install anbox
Now you need to download the Android image.
sudo wget -O /var/lib/anbox/android.img https://build.anbox.io/android-image...id_3_amd64.img
Start
There are two systemd services.
sudo systemctl start anbox-container-manager.service
systemctl --user start anbox-session-manager.service
Now you can start anbox application from your desktop.
If you want these services to start when booting, just
sudo systemctl enable anbox-container-manager.service
systemctl --user enable anbox-session-manager.service
You can also build Anbox from the source if you meet with its requirements.
If anyone manages to run Anbox application by installing it from its author's Personal Package Archive, you are requested to post the solution here.
You can contribute your programing skills to help improving this project and make it compatible for kali-linux so that pentesters can test the security of their Android apps directly on Linux platform without using emulators.
