• Contact: port-arm
• Duration estimate: 3-6 months

Android is an extremely popular platform, with good software support.

NetBSD has some COMPAT_LINUX support, and it might be possible to leverage this to run Android applications.
This is only done for GNU/Linux platforms right now (SUSE / Debian).

We need to start with Android x86, as COMPAT_LINUX for x86 already exists and is known to work.

As this is a difficult project, the project will need adjustments with time.

• Create an anbox chroot on linux/x86, experiment with running it with NetBSD.
• Experiment with running simplest Android program
• Implement missing syscall emulation as needed
• ??? (gap for difficulties we will find from this)
• Package anbox-chroot in pkgsrc

Resources:

• Anbox makes it possible to run things on regular linux, and is worth exploring.
• This page details changes done on Android
• The source code of Android is open.