What’s the way to run android apps in nixos these days? Both anbox and androidenv.emulateApp are broken and can’t simply downgrade with older nixpkgs version…
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There is an open PR that fixes Anbox (anbox: fixes and upgrades by samueldr · Pull Request #125600 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub), but at this point it’s only a draft and Anbox also requires two non-mainline non-default kernel modules, so you have to recompile the kernel.
If you want to use the emulator, you can have a look at robotnix which provides emulator targets for different Android flavors:
Note however, that robotnix will compile the entire Android OS from source which needs a gigantic amount of resources.
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Wow, tons of work has been done in this project robotnix. Thank you.
Both of them have been mainlined for quite a while, we just don’t enable them by default yet.
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Yes, you’re right. Sorry about the confusion. It still stands though, that you have to recompiled the kernel.
However, the Xanmod kernel patchset compiles these modules by default, so using
{
boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_xanmod;
}
might save you from recompiling (given that you are fine with all other modifications introduced by Xanmod).
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However, recent linux kernel has ashmem removed (in favor of memfd). So, old instructions don’t work…
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