How to manage addons

In Anbox Cloud, addons can be used to customise images that are used for instances. See Addons and Addon manifest to learn about addons in detail.

If this is your first time creating an addon, follow the Create an addon tutorial to learn how to write a simple addon.

You can use addons to, for example:

• Enable SSH access for automation tools (see Create an addon)

• Set up user-specific data when starting an application (see Example: Back up data)

• Install additional tools in the instance (see Example: Install tools)

• Back up data when the instance is stopping (see Example: Back up data)

• Configure the Android system before running the application (see Example: Customise Android)

• Provide support for other platforms (see Example: Emulate platforms)

If you have used addons before Anbox Cloud 1.12, see How to migrate from previous versions to update your addons to use the new hooks.