Question What is the best way to run an Android .apk with WiFi access in Linux?

[Col Brubaker]

Hello Folks,

I bought a cheap drone at some discounter. https://maginon.de/products/quadrokopter-qc-710se-wifi-100827
Now I want to run the app, to fly the drone, on my Kali Linux. https://apkpure.com/maginon-air/com.maginon.maginonair/variant/1.1.1-APK#variants
My phone is a bit shitty. And actually the other is a 20yo Nokia.
At the last attempt I messed up my Linux installation. Now I ask first.
What I don't want - I am paranoid as well/hell - is having Google or some other spyware on it. All need to be freeware without to pay.
Actually I want a big screen resolution. Duno if I can use the Joystick later. Would be cool.

Any suggestions?

 

[Col Brubaker]

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Meanwhile I am experimenting with open Android and Lineage OS on Gnome Boxes in Kali.
They launch well, but my drone app stalls all the time.
Furthermore I am worried about to use the WiFi from the virtual drive.
Otherwise everything fine. Computer is still running.

 

[Matias Saibene]

I don't know about the subject but I might suggest using Anbox or its successor project Waydroid. I'm afraid I don't know how to use either one.
But they do have installation instructions for Debian, so I guess it should work just fine on Kali.
https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops

 

[Col Brubaker]

Yes, but Anbox is not available anymore. It was on Snapcraft for Debian. But it don't exist anymore.
Waydroid was, what let me fuck-up my OS by the attempt to remove it.
But Kali has Wayland in the Ubuntu Parts. I think I have 11 Desktop-enviroments on Kali.
Some websites say there are over 10 possibilities to run an app. Last I did was to run several Android versions in Gnome-Boxes. But somehow the app stalls all the time.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Yes, but Anbox is not available anymore. It was on Snapcraft for Debian. But it don't exist anymore.
Waydroid was, what let me fuck-up my OS by the attempt to remove it.
But Kali has Wayland in the Ubuntu Parts. I think I have 11 Desktop-enviroments on Kali.
Some websites say there are over 10 possibilities to run an app. Last I did was to run several Android versions in Gnome-Boxes. But somehow the app stalls all the time.

Maybe the app only supports ARM and not x86_64 architecture.

 

[Col Brubaker]

Hmm, I never thought about that. But that's what an emulator is made for?
On the other hand, I can let Android OS, Bliss OS and Lineage OS run in Gnome-Boxes. Why the app should not work in the VM?
On my very old netbook I have a Bliss OS physically in a 8GB partition installed. I used it for car-diagnostic apps. On Intel architecture.
And It worked via bluetooth.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know virtual machines cannot emulate an ARM processor without help from another package. At least I can't with virt-manager just like that. I think to achieve this I have to install a package called qemu-system-arm.

 

[Col Brubaker]

$ sudo apt install qemu-system-arm

qemu-system-arm ist schon die neueste Version (1:7.2+dfsg-7). <-- already installed

So, yes, you are right. But if I wouldn't have it, the Lineage OS wouldn't run either.
I tried a few of this Virtual Machines. But Gnome Boxes is simply the best.

Arch Linux - gnome-boxes 44.1-1 (x86_64)

archlinux.org

 

[Matias Saibene]

Have you tried Android x86?
https://www.android-x86.org/

So far it's the only way I know of to use Android on PC, even though it's not ARM. I have tested it in virtual machine. But I never tried to install an application on it. I'm going to try again.

 

[Col Brubaker]

Android x86 was the first I tried.
Bliss OS is what I have on my old computer. (You can only boot it via Uefi/Bios) https://blissos.org/
And Lineage OS is what I have on my phone. Here the app runs. But it stall in the simulation of drone flight.
Perhaps cause of low RAM (1GB)?
Actually I would prefer to run the app directly in an emulator without to simulate an Android OS in a VM.
And btw. I have AMD