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#19
Originally Posted by mosen View Post
Please, someone give some kind of management summary of the differences between sfdroid and anbox. I lost track...
Will docker make it easier to deploy anbox on different sfos devices?
How about sfos system integration? (android -> GPS, BT, sailfish -> Notifcations, contacts, etc.)

I heard Jolla hired a new android related guy.
Could they be working on replacing soon to be dead horse Alien Dalvik for good?
Sorry for starting rumors and shifting OT but it bothers me a lot.
sfdroid modified the cm base that Sailfish was flashed on top of, in order for it to boot into it (so it runs in parallel), and render inside Sailfish. Device specific modifications were needed to each base of each device, in order for it to work. sfdroid was also limited to whatever the base the device used for the port, CM10.1, 11 or 12.1.

Anbox uses a separate emulator image which runs inside an LXC container, and renders to the host Linux OS. Because a seperate image is used, and that it's an emulator image, the same image can be booted to with different devices without modification (which was needed with sfdroid), so any modifications (ie. to get rendering, sensors, network stuff working) will apply to all devices.
 

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