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How to Run Android Apps on Ubuntu using ARChon
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Android, Chrome, Ubuntu
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**Google recently announced the first [set of Android apps available to run natively on Chrome OS][1], a feat made possible using a new ‘Android Runtime’ extension.**
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Now, a developer has [figured out a way to bring Android Apps to Chrome][2] on the desktop.
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[Vlad Filippov][3]‘s [chromeos-apk script][4] and [ARChon Android Runtime extension][5] work hand-in-hand to bring Android apps to Chrome on the Windows, Mac and Linux desktop.
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IMDB, Flipboard and Twitter Android Apps running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
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Performance of apps through the runtime is not fantastic. Any ambitions of running Dead Trigger 2 or other graphically intensive games should be put to one side.
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Similarly, being both an unofficial repackaging of the official runtime and running outside of Chrome OS, system integration (e.g., webcam, speakers, etc.) may be patchy or non-existent.
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The guide that follows is provided as-is, and without any guarantees of success. It should be considered highly experimental, buggy, unstable – possibly even flat out evil. Try it out of curiosity rather than heightened expectation and you should be fine.
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### How to Run Android Apps on Linux ###
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To run Android apps on Linux through Chrome you will need, obviously, to install Chrome. Version 37 or higher is required. Honestly, if you’re going to be playing with a potentially unstable hack then you might as well download and [install the unstable version of Google Chrome for Linux, too][6].
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Already got a version of Chrome installed? You can install the Dev Channel version via the command line by running:
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sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
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Next you need to download the custom-made — ergo officially not endorsed by Google or Chromium — Android Runtime created by Vlad Filippov. This differs from the official version in a number of ways, the chief being it can be used on desktop versions of the browser.
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- [Download ARChon v1.0 from BitBucket][7]
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Once the runtime has fully downloaded you will need to extract the contents from the .zip and move the resulting folder to your Home folder.
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To install, open Google Chrome, click the hamburger menu and navigate through to the extensions page. Check ‘Enable developer mode’ and click on the ‘load unpacked extension’ button.
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The Runtime alone doesn’t do much by itself so you will need to create a compatible package from an Android app. To do this you will need the ‘[chromeos-apk][8]’ [command line JavaScript utility][9], which is available to install through the Node Packaged Modules (npm) manager.
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First run:
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sudo apt-get install npm nodejs nodejs-legacy
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Ubuntu 64 user? You’ll want to grab the following library, too:
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sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6
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Now run the command to install the script itself:
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npm install -g chromeos-apk
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Depending on your configuration you may need to need to run this latter command as sudo. If you’d prefer [not to install npm modules with sudo, you can][10] do so with some jiggery-pokery.
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Now you’re in the home straight. Head over to Google to find an APK of an app you want to try out, bearing in mind **not all Android apps will work**, and **those that do may be unstable** or lack features.
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Place your wanted Android APK in ~/Home, then return to Terminal to convert it using the following command, replacing the APK name with the one you want:
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chromeos-apk replaceme.apk --archon
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The command will take a few seconds to do its thing. Maybe have a blink. [Actually, don’t blink][11].
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You now have an ARChon-rocking Chrome APK extension-y folder-y thing waiting in your Home folder. All that’s left to do is install it to see if it works!
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Head back into the chrome://extensions page, tap the ‘load unpacked extension’ button once again but this time select the folder the script above created.
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The app should proceed to install without issue, but will it run without issue? Open the Chrome App Launcher or Apps Page and launch it to find out.
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#### Going Further ####
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Since the ARChon runtime supports an unlimited number of Chromified APKs you can repeat the process as many times as you like. The Chrome APK [subreddit][12] is keeping track of success/failures, so if you’re feeling helpful be sure to post your findings there.
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via: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/install-android-apps-ubuntu-archon
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作者：[Joey-Elijah Sneddon][a]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创翻译，[Linux中国](http://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]:https://plus.google.com/117485690627814051450/?rel=author
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[1]:http://www.omgchrome.com/first-4-chrome-android-apps-released/
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[2]:http://www.omgchrome.com/run-android-apps-on-windows-mac-linux-archon/
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[3]:https://github.com/vladikoff/
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[4]:https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk
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[5]:https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk/blob/master/archon.md
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[6]:http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
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[7]:https://bitbucket.org/vladikoff/archon/get/v1.0.zip
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[8]:https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk/blob/master/README.md
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[9]:https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk/blob/master/README.md
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[10]:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19352976/npm-modules-wont-install-globally-without-sudo/21712034#21712034
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[11]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKXLkWrBo7o
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[12]:http://www.reddit.com/r/chromeapks
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