Canonical Anbox Cloud is an Android emulation platform that utilizes LXD to instantiate Android containers ina very dense fashion. Anbox Cloud is highly scalable and offloads compute, storage and graphics-intensive applications from Arm-based devices to any cloud. Canonical Anbox Cloud allows customers to build custom platforms and deploy applications to accelerate time-to-market.

Canonical developed Anbox Cloud on highly efficient containerized workloads using Android as a guest operating system to enable service providers or enterprises to hundreds or even thousands of Android application streams from the cloud to any device. By running this platform on Ampere server products such as Ampere Altra and Altra Max, Anbox Cloud customers can run all their applications natively, delivering the performance, low power and cost advantages needed to satisfy stringent per consumer SLAs.

Key Benefits:

• Now running on the world's first Arm Native processor with up to 128 cores!
• High performance, low power and high container density
• Developer platform for prototyping, developing, and running Android apps
• Broad platform ecosystem with high GPU density
• Fully supported and backed by Canonical

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04
• Virtualization: LXD Container
• Rendering: GPU, CPU
• Encoding: GPU, CPU
• Video format: VP8/9, H.264
• Steaming: WebRTC
• Android: Android 10, 11, 12 (base)
• Orchestration: Juju
• SDK: server SDK (rendering, encoding), and client SDK (Android, web, desktop)

• The Juju controller is used to manage and deploy software.
• LXD provides secure, high performance system containers.
• The containers include the Anbox runtime environment which abstracts a nested Android container from any direct hardware access and provides mediation for GPU virtualization support.
• The Anbox runtime environment integrates WebRTC based streaming for wide device support.
• Utilizes either software or hardware accelerated video encoding.
• Anbox Cloud includes components to build a control plane which simplifies and abstracts the use of the underlying container platform.
• The Anbox Management Service (AMS) provides an abstraction layer on top of LXD to add resource management, container orchestration, and application lifecycle management.
• Allows simplified scale out across multiple regions using Anbox Stream Agent, NATS message queues and Anbox Stream Gateway.
• Integrates with popular monitoring stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Orchestration: OpenNebula/Ansible Genymotion Android in the Cloud is available as an Android virtual machine with ARM-64 support running on Ampere servers. It is fully compatible with ADB and offers HTTP APIs & JavaScript SDK for live streaming in web browsers.

Key Benefits:

• Full device virtualization (VD)
• High VD density
• On-demand scalability
• High performance streaming on multiple GPUs
• Available as a service on Ampere Cloud partners or as a bare-metal solution
• No nested virtualization for best performance
• Compatibility with popular testing frameworks such as Appium, Espresso, Detox, Robotium, etc.
• Rich ADB APIs and functionality
• Full interaction with the screen of a device or in a web browser (no plugin needed)
• Smooth HD and low latency streamed experience

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Virtualization: VM
• Rendering: GPU, CPU
• Encoding: GPU, CPU
• Video format: H264
• Steaming: WebRTC
• Android: Android 8 (Full)
• Orchestration: OpenNebula/Ansible

The NVIDIA Android cloud gaming SDK is an efficient rendering, encoding, and streaming pipeline with frames directly rendered and composited inside Android containers on mapped GPUs, and then passed to CUDA based encoding and streaming processes running in a variety of supported NVIDIA GPUs.

The SDK includes the following components:

• Android vender components (GPU driver, surfaceflinger, input, audio)
• Android properties for rendering output formats
• Encoding and streaming modules
• SDKs (Android, frame capturing, encoding, and streaming)
• Docker container management script
• Android client

Note: Nvidia cloud gaming SDK does not provide orchestration tools, but can be integrated with popular Kubernetes orchestration environments.

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Virtualization: docker container
• Rendering: GPU
• Encoding: GPU
• Video format: H264, H265
• Streaming: RTSP, customizable
• Android: Android 9
• Orchestration: Scripts/ Kubernetes
• SDK: Android GPU integration, video encoding, streaming

GPUs are mapped/indexed into containers. NVIDIA provides a proprietary GPU driver for GL rendering and surface composition.

For graphics applications like Android games, GPUs render frames and pass to surfaceflinger, which supports hardware composing to render the final frames. The frame buffer properties (not frame data) are copied into shared memory for frame capture and sharing purposes.

Frame capture, encoding, and streaming modules run in the host instead of inside the Android containers. The frame capture module reads shared frame buffer properties and passes it to the CUDA based video encoder, which can directly read and encode frames composed by surfaceflinger into the video stream. Encoded video streams can be copied from GPU to CPU memory and then sent on the network.

Begoit AIC solutions can support rendering with AMD GPU and Nvidia GPU, and encoding with [NetInt] VPU, Nvidia GPU, or CPU. While Nvidia GPU is supported via virto GPU at containers, both AMD GPU and [NetInt] VPU are passed through to Android containers, thus support direct rendering and encoding at the guest containers, without any encoding or streaming modules running on hosts. This configuration can be fully integrated with Kubernetes tools. WebRTC is supported on Begoit solutions.

While Begoit provided full solutions from Android drivers of GPU and VPU to Kubernetes integration, rich OpenAPI and client SDK are provided for partners on building SaaS.

Key Benefits

• Optimized high performance streaming protocol
• Support multiple GPUs and VPUs
• Streaming SDKs support wide client such as H5, Android, iOS, Windows
• Rich APIs support
• High container density and scalability
• High compatibility on Android apps

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04,20.04
• Virtualization: Docker container
• Rendering: GPU, CPU
• Encoding: GPU, VPU, CPU
• Video format: H264, VP8
• Streaming: WebRTC, customizable
• Android: Android 7, 9, 10, 11
• Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Rendering
  • Guest Direct Rendering: AMD GPUs, CPU

  • Host Indirect rendering via virtual GPU: Nvidia GPUs
• Encoding
  • Guest Direct Encoding: VPU (NetInt/M10A), CPU [, GPU], Mix-Match
  • Host Encoding: Nvidia GPUs
• Provide client SDKs(Android, iOS, H5, Windows).
• Rich APIs for docker, apps, cluster management
• Integrates with Prometheus, Grafana for system monitor.

Begoit has enabled AMD GPUs and NetInt VPU in Android docker containers, as such it can enable direct rendering and hardware accelerated video encoding in guest virtual environments. In this setup, all rendering, encoding, and streaming can be done inside the Android containers and thus make the management or orchestration much easy, in addition to performance gain from the direct rendering.

WebRTC is the protocol adopted by Begoit for streaming protocol which enable streaming to any web browsers with WebRTC support, without install any new packages. In addition to browsers, Begoit also provided SDK for better integration with customers environments.

Begoit also support guest CPU encoding together with guest rendering with AMD GPU. This configuration is similar to the one above mentioned but replaced the encoding components with CPU.

On the systems with Nvidia GPUs, Begoit can be configured as host rendering mode, which the graphics commands are streamed to an agent running at host and finish the actual rendering, encoding, and streaming.

RHOS multi-terminal collaborative cloud office will automatically adapt the cloud service screen, resolution and definition according to different user terminals to achieve the best display effect. It has supported multiple terminals such as Android phones, Android Pads, windows computers, smart touch screen TVS, set-top boxes and Android smart watches, and will match the operation mode according to different user terminals to achieve the same user experience as native devices.

RHOS cloud system solution is deeply optimized based on docker+aosp. Achieve connectivity experience across terminal platforms. Relying on RHOS system to expand the cloud mobile phone, cloud game, cloud office, cloud rendering, cloud multi-terminal and other application scenarios.

• Operating Systerm: ubuntu20.xx，kernel 5.xx,
• Virtualization: kvm 4.xx, docker
• Aosp: aosp10
• Steaming format: H264, H265
• Streaming media: webrtc、websocket、tcp
• Mornitoring: Prometheus、Grafana
• GPU： Nvidia GPU
• CPU： Ampere Altra CPU