Anbox – A container-based approach to boot full Android on a regular Linux

Most Android apps are just JVM bytecode and work on any architecture. Apps using the NDK (native development kit) are architecture-specific and often lack x86 binaries but ecommerce apps are highly unlikely to use the NDK.

What else would you install after putting Anbox into your setup?

Sorry, should've clarified. I was referring to installing Android apps, which is currently listed as “TBD” [0].

[0]: https://github.com/anbox/anbox#install-and-run-android-appli...

I think the idea here is that you would compile one native Android application that is running a single “distributed process” capable of spawning threads in both places, as if the phone and the cloud were two (very distant) NUMA noses of the same physical device. (Or, more practically, with the Android runtime doing transparent distributed RPC using a single set of static types that are marshalled between the client and server using something like protobufs.)

For this to work out, the devices really need to be either capable of running the same native code; or at least need to all be running an abstract bytecode VM with its durable state synchronized between them.