Why Should Whonix should support or be interested in Android ?

A lot stuff from Whonix Documentation and Whonix Advanced Documentation was created with that. My earliest experiments tunneling I2P, VPN, Alternative DNS Resolver - Whonix, and whatnot over Tor where motivated by that.

There have been a few inquiries by users how to torify Android x86, even professional support inquiries on how to torify android applications.

Looks like a confusion of what forum thread Running Android Apps inside Whonix-Workstation - Anbox - Proof of concept - #2 is aiming at. So far as I guess what it means…

goal:

suggestions that were NOT made:

  • replacing Debian based Whonix-Workstation with Android by default
  • Whonix mobile based on Android

Since we already document tons of applications and things, including obscure things, I don’t see a reason to block development of instructions how to run anbox inside Whonix-Workstation.

Maybe thread title would be better changed from

Running Android Apps on Whonix WIP

to

Running Android Apps inside Whonix-Workstation

WIP being and abbreviation not known to everyone and then misunderstood as a new flavor of Whonix.

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