Install JW Library Android App on Linux
Instructions showing you how to Install the JW Library App on Linux.
Instructions showing you how to Install the JW Library App on Linux.
I have created a couple of videos that are popular on YouTube, showing howto install the WT Library CD-Rom program on Linux. As most of you know the JW Library CD-Rom will be discontinued and it was announced that they will be focusing on the JW Library App and the Website JW.org.
These are the instructions I use to install the JW Library Android App on a Linux Desktop Computer, using Anbox, and a script that enables your to connect to the Google Play Store so you can download the JW Library app and install it.
There are basically three things you need to do make this work
Anbox, or Android in a Box, is a free and open source tool that allows running Android applications on Linux. It works by running the Android runtime environment in an LXC container, recreating the directory structure of Android as a mountable loop image, while using the native Linux kernel to execute applications.
Anbox's key features are security, performance, integration and convergence (scales across different form factors), according to its website.
Using Anbox, each Android application or game is launched in a separate window, just like system applications, and they behave more or less like regular windows, showing up in the launcher, can be tiled, etc.
By default, Anbox doesn't ship with the Google Play Store or support for ARM applications. To install applications you must download each app APK and install it manually using adb. Also, installing ARM applications or games doesn't work by default with Anbox - trying to install ARM apps results in the following error being displayed:
Before using this, I'd like to make it clear that not all Android applications and games work in Anbox, even after integrating libhoudini for ARM support. Some Android applications and games may not show up in the Google Play Store at all, while others may be available for installation but will not work.
1. Install Anbox according to the instructions on their website at anbox.io. Also, make sure you run anbox.appmgr at least once after installing Anbox and before using this script, to avoid running into issues. Also, make sure Anbox is not running when executing the script below.
2. Install the required dependencies (wget, lzip, unzip and squashfs-tools).
In Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, use this command to install the required dependencies:
sudo apt install wget curl lzip tar unzip squashfs-tools3. Download and run the script that automatically downloads and installs Google Play Store (and Google Play Services) and libhoudini (for ARM apps / games support) on your Android in a Box installation.
Warning: never run a script you didn't write without knowing what it does. Before running this script, check out its code.
To download the script and make it executable, use these commands in a terminal:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geeks-r-us/anbox-playstore-installer/master/install-playstore.sh
and
chmod +x install-playstore.sh
4. Now you can run the script:
./install-playstore.sh5. To get Google Play Store to work in Anbox, you need to enable all the permissions for both Google Play Store and Google Play Services
To do this, run Anbox:
anbox.appmgr6. Then go to Settings > Apps > Google Play Services > Permissions and enable all available permissions.
Do the same for Google Play Store!
7. You should now be able to go to the Google Play store and download JW Library App for Android and install it.
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Ron Billings
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