In the Android Canary branch, which replaced Android Developer Preview and used to test functionality for future issues Android, the possibility of launching graphic applications collected for Linux has been added. The launch is carried out through the Linux Terminal application, which allows you to launch a virtual machine with Debian GNU/Linux surrounded by Android, in which you can perform conventional Linux applications.
To launch the graphic environment, the Linux Terminal application added the “Display” button, which includes redirecting graphics through the components mainly environment Android. After activating the “Display” button in the terminal, you can run the Weston composite server that provides a minimalist window session, and then use it to launch any graphic applications, for example, the launch of the Gedit text editor. AOSP (Android Open Source Project) in the main composition of the Android platform. The functionality of the virtual machine with Linux develops as part of the project Ferrochrome. In the guest environment is launched Debian GNU/Linux 12. The framework AVF (Android Virtualization Framework), implemented on the basis of the KVM hypervisor and tools crosvm. The graphic environment is used by Wayland and based on a composite server Weston. The launch of applications collected for X11 is carried out using the XWayland DDX component.