Android Apps in Puppy?

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Android Apps in Puppy?

#1 Post by ITSMERSH »

Hi.

Is it possible to run Android Apps in Puppy?

I don't own a smart phone but my internet provider offers +10% high speed volume when using the App to charge e.g. a prepaid card for internet use etc.pp.

So, if this would be possible I would get 6GB instead of 5.5GB for 15,- €.

:?
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dancytron
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#2 Post by dancytron »

I don't think so.

There is something called "anbox".

I attempted to get it to run on debian dog. I failed.

Maybe you will have better luck.

See http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... afc612536d
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wiak
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#3 Post by wiak »

EDIT: The following Chrome browser extension called "ARC Welder" worked for me in tests (see my next post for some test details).

It's pretty big extension download (quite a bit over 100MB),

but nothing like as big as using Android SDK: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html?hl=sk

Here is ARC Welder info/extension:

https://www.androidguys.com/tips-tools/ ... ps-chrome/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... ngdoccbadn

I also had a quick try of the similar Chrome browser extension called ARChon (might be same as ARC Welder; earlier?), but that was more complicated to install/use and didn't work when I tried it:

https://www.linux.com/learn/installing- ... nux-archon
https://archon-runtime.github.io/

wiak
Last edited by wiak on Tue 26 Feb 2019, 10:11, edited 5 times in total.
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wiak
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#4 Post by wiak »

Just tried ARC Welder (see my immediately above post) with my Chrome browser Version 63.0.3239.108 (Official Build) (64-bit) on my Old HP EliteBook laptop 2530p core-2-duo 2GB RAM XenialDog64 system. It worked (so far) with an apk for app "Face Slim" I downloaded from:

https://f-droid.org/en/
https://search.f-droid.org/?q=face+slim&lang=en

Reading some Facebook posts on it right now...

It includes messenger capability, which worked in test too.

EDIT: I notice that once you get an apk (such as Face Slim) running, it becomes available to Launch from Chrome Browser Extensions tab.

EDIT2: I also find it (along with main ARC Welder startup icon) by opening a new tap with url entry: chrome://apps

wiak
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ITSMERSH

#5 Post by ITSMERSH »

@all

Thanks for the replies.

I think I will probably try some stuff wiak mentioned - if I will find some time to do so. Being busy with higher rated things to do.
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