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Why is Anbox only distributed as a snap? Anbox is currently only distributed as a snap as snaps makes the life for us developers pretty easy. They allow us fas
by kleiba 6y ago
Why is Anbox only distributed as a snap?
Anbox is currently only distributed as a snap as snaps makes the life for us developers pretty easy. They allow us fast and easy packaging, easy distribution to our users, as well as regular and fast updates. Flatpak would be another alternative but we didn't investigate this yet, nor are we planing to do so in the near future. However, we're happy to accept contributions from the community around Anbox to provide necessary changes to distribute Anbox as a flatpak package too.
One thing which Anbox currently doesn't do is using proper confinement for snaps. Right now it is only usable when installed in the so-called devmode of snaps which disables any confinement. This is something we will work on over the coming months with upstream to allow our snap to be fully confined.
Despite snap confinement being disabled, the Android system still stays separate through the use of Linux namespaces from the host system.