Tech News Android on Linux - WayDroid

People who would like to be able to run Android applications on a GNU/Linux platform received good news recently. The Waydroid project is developing container-based software which allows a desktop Linux system to run an Android-compatible environment based on LineageOS. "Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform. The Android inside the container has direct access to needed hardware. The Android runtime environment ships with a minimal customized Android system image based on LineageOS. The used image is currently based on Android 10." Waydroid is currently available pre-packaged for some distributions such as

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. It requires a Wayland session to run and Python 3 on the host system.

Working side by side your Linux applications​

Full App Integration​

Waydroid integrated with Linux adding the Android apps to your linux applications folder

Multi-Window Mode​

Waydroid expands on Android freeform window definition, adding a number of features

FULL UI MODE​

For gaming and full screen entertainment, Waydroid can also be run to show the full Android UI

How To Install
Dependencies:

• python3
• lxc
• curl
• Wayland session manager !!IMPORTANT!!

Replace DISTRO="bullseye" with your current target. Options: focal, bullseye, hirsute

export DISTRO="bullseye" && \
sudo curl https://repo.waydro.id/waydroid.gpg --output /usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg && \
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg] https://repo.waydro.id/ $DISTRO main" > ~/waydroid.list && \
sudo mv ~/waydroid.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waydroid.list && \
sudo apt update

Then install Waydroid

sudo apt install waydroid

And start the init process:

sudo waydroid init

Running Waydroid​

After installing, you will want to start the waydroid-container service

sudo systemctl start waydroid-container

Then launch waydroid container:

sudo waydroid container start

And launch the session:

waydroid session start

Then launch the waydroid app in full UI mode by running the Waydroid app in the app drawer, or through terminal:

waydroid show-full-ui

Further Info:

https://docs.waydro.id/

 

[Loveena]

Yup, came across the news when was disappointed with "Makulu Linux Droid" and looking for other options.
@mobi0001, do you know any distro that comes with WayDroid PreInstalled ?

Thank you, Regards

 

[mobi0001]

Yup, came across the news when was disappointed with "Makulu Linux Droid" and looking for other options.
@mobi0001, do you know any distro that comes with WayDroid PreInstalled ?

Thank you, Regards

@Loveena
Nope, afaik and can search there is no container with inbuilt WL. There are few Kernels inbuilt, but otherwise nope. You can try on Mint as well.
Just know the space it takes is a bit high tbvh, based on the config setup.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Kernel_Modules

On the other hand Makulu has some really good features. But yeah, it is disappointing as well for many reasons.