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Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by antiframe »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #83
moritonal wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry if this is rude, but this comment reads really strangely. You seem to acknowledge that you really want something, whilst also accept you cannot do it for a lack of time|skill and then seem annoyed that the people who do ask for some kind of payment for their work?

THis guy wants to run containers of Android games, such as the various Pay to Win Machine Zone games (they are just one example). I played one of these once (some Final Fantasy thing) and the amount of manipulative social engineering, dopamine triggering sidegames, and manipulation by devs or employed super-players to "mix things up" to try to provoke people to fork over money was appalling. Thankfully I used almost…

> The games are a fascinating example of hyperinflation too.

Can you elaborate on what's fascinating?

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by marcodiego »

dvdkon wrote: post #26
shrubble wrote: post #20

Idea: take the open source Beagle Bone Black, which has open source schematics, put into (probably chunkier) phone form factor, add 4g phone modem. Use containers to segregate any apps, e.g. web browser, maps, Signal/Telegram all in a separate container from each other. Would this allow for less privacy-invasion from Google etc.?

You could just use a PinePhone, you'd probably get similar performance in a much more convenient form factor.

See the video comparing a pinephone to a librem-5 running supertuxkart: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Benchm...

They are not on par in terms of performance.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by JanMa »

marcodiego wrote: post #75
CameronNemo wrote: post #52

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None on ARM. Google never offered widevine to Firefox on ARM64.

Exactly, AFAIK you can't watch netflix on your ARM SBC.

You can, all you need to do is to extract the widevine binary from a ChromeOS arm build and put them on your Pi/ARM board.

Admittedly, it's a bit cumbersome to do this, but it works very well. I've been watching Netflix on my Raspberry Pi 4 for over a year using it.

Also, according to this guy [0] you now seem to be able to just install libwidevine in Raspberry OS. I haven't tested this yet though.

[0]: https://lemariva.com/blog/2021/04/raspberry-pi-amazon-prime-...

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by zekrioca »

gizdan wrote: post #49
zekrioca wrote: post #32

I do not know why they do not give credits, nor mention that they use LXC behind the scenes [1]. [1] https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/blob/bullseye/tools/hel...

Why do they need to? Sure it'll be nice, but depending on your market, maybe that's an unnecessary implementation detail.

They do mention

"Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full…" [see main page]

when in fact they simply use LXD, which uses all these features. Besides, it is a project dependency, which is not mentioned anywhere.

Edit: clarity.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by knakk »

kxyvr wrote: post #17

Has anyone had success getting any of these containers to work with a camera? Recently, my bank discontinued their website based deposit system for checks in favor of their app. I'm reluctant to keep an app with full access to my account on my phone, so a container system like Waydroid or Anbox would be great if I could just emulate the app when I need it. Has anyone else run into this issue and, if so, how have you…

I have been trying to get my banking software to work with both Anbox and Waydroid for the last couple of days. So far I've had no success with either. I've gotten other apps to run just fine but not any related to banking. These apps are extremely picky about the environment you run them in. At least the ones I'm working with require Google Play Services, which is proprietary and have to be ripped from an Android image (if you don't want to take a chance on some shady download). Even with Play services, my app still will not start. I'm thinking it could be related to how Anbox and Waydroid shares the kernel with the host OS, and therefor it may not look like valid Android to the apps.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by jeroenhd »

One thing I've run into with these projects is that they don't work well in a multi user setting. Anbox specifically assumes that only a single user is present in the system and having multiple users with multiple app profiles seems to be entirely unsupported.

I can't find anything about that use case in the description here, but if anyone has tried it I'd love to hear if Waydroid would be a fit for my use case.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by LeSaucy »

outworlder wrote: post #44
edoceo wrote: post #42

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Because you're running an emulator on a damnd phone!! A PHONE! Wild!

Phones have more processing power than laptops from just a few years ago. People aren't exaggerating when they call them pocket supercomputers.

The series 7 Apple Watch has a higher resolution display than the original iPhone.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by marcodiego »

fsflover wrote: post #89
marcodiego wrote: post #87

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This was posted a long time ago. The phone has been available for a more than a year now and it still is not ryf-certified. I don't think it will ever be.

Have a look at my first link. FSF did not certify the phone, because they did not receive the units yet. Purism is struggling with delivery due to the supply chain problem. Nevertheless, FSF recommends Librem 5 every year, and they never recommend anything requiring binary blobs. I have no doubt it will be certified (later rather than sooner).

I couldn't find "FSF did not certify the phone, because they did not receive the units yet" in the links you posted.

Purism has been tight-lipped about getting ryf certification. These maneuvers around memory and hdmi look more like cheating to me. According to the links I posted, i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed. I stand by what I say: I don't think the librem-5 will ever get ryf-certified.

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