---
name: "anbox"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "anbox"
version: "0.0~git20210106-1"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/anbox"
---

# anbox(1)

run Android in a box

## NAME

anbox - run Android in a box

## SYNOPSIS

**anbox \[command options\] \[arguments...\]**

## COMMANDS

- system-info

  Print various information about the system we're running on

- check-features

  Check that the host system supports all necessary features

- session-manager

  Run the the anbox session manager

- container-manager

  Start the container manager service

- launch

  Launch an Activity by sending an intent

- help

  prints a short help message

- version

  print the version of the daemon

- wait-ready

  Wait until the Android system has successfully booted

## DESCRIPTION

Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu. In other words: Anbox will let you run Android on your Linux system without the slowness of virtualization.

## EXAMPLES

To launch an Android application from command line:

anbox launch --package=org.anbox.appmgr --component=org.anbox.appmgr.AppViewActivity

## SEE ALSO

**/usr/share/doc/anbox/README.Debian**

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Shengjing Zhu \<zhsj@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).