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Anbox is recommended for Linux users who want to seamlessly run Android applications without the need to dual-boot another operating system or use heavy virtual machines. It's particularly useful for developers testing Android apps in different environments, or users who rely on specific mobile applications for their work or personal tasks.
Based on our record, Anbox seems to be a lot more popular than Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. While we know about 64 links to Anbox, we've tracked only 6 mentions of Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
It's definitely possible, you have android virtualization options for linux like QEMU, VirtualBox, Anbox, WayDroid, but most of these are either not great or a bit too advanced for this. Easiest / best bet off the top of my head is dual booting Windows and using BlueStacks. Source: about 3 years ago
This isn't really a distro, but you could try Anbox, which wouldn't have the performance overhead of a virtual machine. Source: over 3 years ago
If school apps have an android alternative anbox may allow you to use it on your linux desktop... Just a thought! Source: over 3 years ago
I have used Anbox when I needed to run an Android App on Linux. Source: over 3 years ago
Does anyone know a way to play Minecraft bedrock on Linux(specifically fedora). I used to use this launcher: mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io, But it has been discontinued and no longer works with the latest version, which I need to be able to play on a friend's real. I've tried using anbox, but it never loaded, and I tried using waydroid, but the internet wasn't working. Don't tell me to just use java, I already do,... Source: almost 4 years ago
The game dev environment theyโre talking about is MakeCode Arcade. Iโm also a big fan of it. There are a number of little handheld gadgets that you can use with MakeCodeโscroll down on the homepage and thereโs a section that shows them all: https://arcade.makecode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
I recently installed Ubuntu on a little Geekom mini PC for my 6 and 8 year olds to share. So far my 6 yo isnโt too into it, but her older sister mostly uses it for the games Iโve put onto it through Epic and Steam and programming using MakeCode, mostly for Arcade (https://arcade.makecode.com) (I have a couple of micro:bit-based handheld shields) and more recently getting into the awesomely simple networking that... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Alternatively, get her an emulator of an old 8 or 16 bit system, I started coding at the age of 10 in these systems, with books that were oriented for kids. https://www.atariarchives.org/ http://redparsley.blogspot.com/2016/08/input-magazine-retrospective.html https://archive.org/details/input-hi-01 Or if you prefer something more up to date, https://arcade.makecode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Https://arcade.makecode.com/ Is great fun to use and made for kids. The forum (forum.makecode.com) is well moderated and safe too. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
I'm not sure how this reduces the barrier to game developement. There are already lots of free assets and game engines designed for making arcade games that are a lot easier then say Unity or Unreal. Like https://arcade.makecode.com/ or https://microstudio.dev/ or https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
BlueStacks - BlueStacks is a website designed to format mobile apps to be compatible to desktop computers, opening up mobile gaming to laptops and other computers. Read more about BlueStacks.
Snap - Snap (formerly BYOB) is a visual, drag-and-drop programming language.
Android-x86 - Run Android on your PC.
Scratch - Scratch is the programming language & online community where young people create stories, games, & animations.
Waydroid - A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
Pocket Operator PO 20-series - Making electronic music has never been this much fun