Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
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Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#2Doubts:
- Is it better/faster/more compatible than anbox?
- Runs on ARM?
- Does it allows me to watch DRM streaming services on my linux box?
- Can I install google play on it?
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#3Followed instructions for 21.04 (distro = "hirsute"), greeted with complaint about binder missing. Found some bug report on the web suggesting I must rebuild my kernel to enable binder. Noped out of there.
Looks like a nice effort though. Is this some problem specific to 21.04 kernel config?
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#4I have tried Waydroid in Manjaro Linux, and to my surprise, it runs smoothly. I even able to install Aurora Store and install Telegram from there, which also run perfectly. RAM usage was minimal, maybe because of it is running on a container.
The only thing I haven't figured out is keyboard input from my physical keyboard directly to the android.
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#5If it's simple to set up, I'd like to use this for verifying and accessing private app data from Android backups without having to use a 2nd phone.
Does it support arm64 emulation on an x86_64 host? That way I could just run the backed up apks directly.
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#6Title should be changed to Linux - thought this was Ubuntu-only at first (like if it were only in Ubuntu repos)
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#7One of the biggest problems with anbox and ARC was that they would need to do tons of work on each new android version. If somebody is willing to keep updating this for new versions of android at least every other android release then it’s reasonable to say this will work long term, otherwise people will use of a year then abandon it.. so Google is now switching to using arcvm where they use a VM instead of trying to do a bunch of work to make android apps run in chromeOS running in a container that requires the right kernel and special compatibility libs / services running to pretend to be android.
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#8Doubts: - Is it better/faster/more compatible than anbox? - Runs on ARM? - Does it allows me to watch DRM streaming services on my linux box? - Can I install google play on it?
I feel like you're expecting a lot from a a container running LineageOS with some integrations into the window manager.
It's a container so the arch matches the host kernel.
In general on LineageOS it's possible to install gapps.
You won't be able to watch DRM streaming services that require Widevine higher than L3 support.
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#9so now we have waydroid and anbox
Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
#10so now we have waydroid and anbox
It sort of looks like these guys said hey if anbox folks aren’t going to update their android version, let’s fork it and do our own thing? There are some random anbox files in the repo for waydroid.