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I'm playing with it on my Librem 5 sometimes out of curiosity. I didn't expect much, but some apps actually work really well (Element, Conversations, Android bu

I'm playing with it on my Librem 5 sometimes out of curiosity. I didn't expect much, but some apps actually work really well (Element, Conversations, Android builds of my Allegro games etc.). Even tried Among Us which is a Unity game and it's... kinda playable (there is a problem with some shaders making it hard to play, but it all works otherwise - haven't debugged it yet though).

Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
Have you tried web notifications on a browser in Anbox on Librem? How does PureOS handle web notifications? I'm assuming you haven't installed Google Play Services on Anbox to test actual Google Push Message Service.
- seba_dos1 6y ago
  Of course I haven't, I'd install microG if anything (but haven't yet). I don't use web notifications at all though so I haven't even thought about testing that - but as far as I know, Anbox doesn't have any way to push notifications out of the Android container into host system so far (but it shouldn't be hard to implement; plus I guess you could even just install KDE Connect inside Anbox and synchronize notifications that way as a lazy hack).
  - Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
    Thanks, do you receive notifications at all when in background in PureOS? Say for email?
    - seba_dos1 6y ago
      Sure, it's just the regular desktop libnotify stuff.
LockAndLol 6y ago
Does anbox degrade battery life of the Librem5? And have you ran stuff like Signal and Telegram on it? Nice to know at least somebody got their phone and is able to play around with it.
- seba_dos1 6y ago
  Hard to say since currently some media service seems to be constantly restarting in the background due to some problem with how the Android image is built, eating some CPU all the time - so I tend to stop the container when I'm done with using it.
knocte 6y ago
good stuff! have you tried whatsapp?
semi-extrinsic 6y ago
I've been pleasantly surprised at how well one of the premium nautical chart apps work under Anbox. It counts as the same license as my phone (no additional cost), and the ability to sit at home and plan a trip on a high resolution monitor with very good mouse/keyboard ergonomics and blazing fast render when moving around, is just night and day compared to doing it on my phone. I can even run it splitscreen with a proper web browser for reading about potential destinations, running Google Earth, etc.

Abishek_Muthian 6y ago

Have you tried web notifications on a browser in Anbox on Librem? How does PureOS handle web notifications? I'm assuming you haven't installed Google Play Services on Anbox to test actual Google Push Message Service.

seba_dos1 6y ago
Of course I haven't, I'd install microG if anything (but haven't yet). I don't use web notifications at all though so I haven't even thought about testing that - but as far as I know, Anbox doesn't have any way to push notifications out of the Android container into host system so far (but it shouldn't be hard to implement; plus I guess you could even just install KDE Connect inside Anbox and synchronize notifications that way as a lazy hack).
- Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
  Thanks, do you receive notifications at all when in background in PureOS? Say for email?
  - seba_dos1 6y ago
    Sure, it's just the regular desktop libnotify stuff.

LockAndLol 6y ago

Does anbox degrade battery life of the Librem5? And have you ran stuff like Signal and Telegram on it? Nice to know at least somebody got their phone and is able to play around with it.

seba_dos1 6y ago
Hard to say since currently some media service seems to be constantly restarting in the background due to some problem with how the Android image is built, eating some CPU all the time - so I tend to stop the container when I'm done with using it.

knocte 6y ago

good stuff! have you tried whatsapp?

semi-extrinsic 6y ago

I've been pleasantly surprised at how well one of the premium nautical chart apps work under Anbox. It counts as the same license as my phone (no additional cost), and the ability to sit at home and plan a trip on a high resolution monitor with very good mouse/keyboard ergonomics and blazing fast render when moving around, is just night and day compared to doing it on my phone. I can even run it splitscreen with a proper web browser for reading about potential destinations, running Google Earth, etc.