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Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by gbrindisi »

knakk wrote: post #96
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 im…

perhaps the containerized environment looks like a rooted phone?

Due to vague security requirements most banking apps refuse to run if the phone has been rooted.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by blendergeek »

sodality2 wrote: post #6

Title should be changed to Linux - thought this was Ubuntu-only at first (like if it were only in Ubuntu repos)

Yeah. This title should be reverted to the title on the page.

A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.

This could be simplified to:

WayDroid: Containerized Android for GNU/Linux

But as it is now, the title has been changed to be confusing.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by alex_smart »

RussianCow wrote: post #139
alex_smart wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>To me those questions are more like; Does it have wheels, do the wheels have tyres, does it have brakes, is it road legal? Considering the availability of the demanded product at the respective price points, I think that my analogy is much more accurate than yours. >Asking about the existence of such things is not a suggestion that they must be provided at that price. Sure, it is up to you to choose what product you…

> If someone offers a car for 5$ on ebay, I am going to assume it is a toy, not the real thing. The whole point of the OP's questions is that they didn't want to assume anything! I don't see the harm in asking these types of questions, even if the most likely answer to each of them is "no".

I am not saying that the questions are outright harmful, just supporting another person's remark that "this comment reads really strangely".

There is no harm in asking whether the 1000$ car at the used car dealership comes with cars that open like wings either, but it would sound strange.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by usr1106 »

andrewshadura wrote: post #118
rd07 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mainly because I want to see if : - I can install something from Aurora Store - The app can run - The app can connect to the internet without changing any config - The app can operate normally It is just a coincidence that the first apps I installed was Telegram. AFAIK, Waydroid doesn't add ARM virtualization, and because I installed it on a X86_64 computer, I doubt something installed from a store (which mainly aime…

In fact, if you have qemu-user-static installed and binfmt configured properly, it will likely just work.

I intended to write the same in reponse to some other comment. But then I got unsure. It would only work if Android has no native ABIs to the system at all. On a Gnu/Linux system you would need a libc in the emulated architecture at least. Applications won't typically bring their own. I have never not looked at Android development, so no idea whether such ABI exist or whether all APIs are Java.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by westurner »

westurner wrote: post #71
gizdan wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This means that there will be some apps that won’t run on your Intel/AMD computer. Should be able to still run them if you use binfmt_misc. Of course it will be slower but it's possible.

> binfmt_misc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binfmt_misc > binfmt_misc can also be combined with QEMU to execute programs for other processor architectures as if they were native binaries.[9] QEMU supported [ARM guest] machines: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM#Supported_... Edit: from "Running and Building ARM Docker Containers on x86" (which also describes how to get CUDA working) https://www.stereo…

Why the heck isn't there just an official Android container and/or a LineageOS container?

It's not a certified device, so.

There are a number of ways to build "multi-arch docker images" e.g. for both x86 and ARM: OCI, docker build, podman build, buildx, buildah.

Containers are testable.

Here's this re: whether the official OpenWRT container should run /sbin/init in order to run procd, ubusd,: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/7975#...

AFAIU, from a termux issue thread re: repackaging everything individually, latest Android requires binaries to be installed from APKs to get the SELinux context label necessary to run?

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by unnouinceput »

knakk wrote: post #96
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 im…

Install Android in a VMWare box. Works like a charm. No fuss, no hassle. And you can customize your network isolation as you want.

Re: Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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Post by electrikjesus »

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...

We figured mentioning it in the docs under dependencies was enough (https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops). We will add it to the website instructions as well then to make things more clear.
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